[CQ-Contest] OH NO! New Technology!!!

Scott Pederson spederson at yahoo.com
Sun May 25 15:27:14 EDT 2008


......Lest we mention Open XML, ODF, or PDF?

Scott - DR -

Dick-w0raa <w0raa at comcast.net> wrote: Here we go, months and months of pro & con debate over HTML vs Text.  I 
guess the good thing is that it will get rid of all the Skimmer crap.  At 
least for a while.  :)

Dick
W0RAA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K0HB " 
To: "K1TTT" ; "reflector cq-contest" 

Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] OH NO! New Technology!!!


> >
>> HTML!  OH NO!  How will we ever survive this??  It must be the end of the
>> world for contesting as we know it!  A new watered down name for
> non-geezers
>> no less!  GEEZ, if you don't know what a Rate Sheet is you shouldn't be
>> contesting!  And why clutter up the good old historic text only format
> that
>> could be easily forwarded via 60wpm baudot with pictures????  Who needs
>> them?  Next thing you know they'll be running an sstv, or moonbounce, or
>> some kind of weird digital mode contest or something crazy like that!
>>
>>
>> David Robbins K1TTT
>
>
> "We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is
> put by different people, we read the poetry; we
> meditate over the literature; we play the music; we
> change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society
> evolves this way, not by shouting each other down,
> but by the unique capacity of unique, individual
> human beings to comprehend each other.'
>
>           --Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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