[CQ-Contest] Sunday afternoon boredom is the wet blanket on SS (was Rules off the table ?)

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Correct.  In fact, when I began SS in 1955, and for a long time after 
that, you got one point if the other station acknowledged your 
"message", and a second if he acknowledged yours

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/5/2013 8:43 PM, Michael Adams wrote:
> I'm not an old-timer, but I was lead to understand that the reason behind
> the SS exchange's format was that the contest is drawn from a
> traffic-handling tradition.
>
> If you're passing traffic to a station, why would you need to pass it to
> that station more than once?
>
> I don't know if that's the real explanation (beyond "that's the way it's
> always been") for work-stations-only-once....but it feels plausible, and is
> the assumption I've been making.
>