[CQ-Contest] Missing E-mail Addresses

[Michael Adams]

It's probably worth mentioning that most email clients / web interfaces have the ability to support folders and automatic filtering to those folders

Learning how to use such functionality goes a LONG way towards improving the S/N ratio in email.

(I don't particularly object to the graphic emailed QSLs - I've used a couple for show-and-tell when chatting with non-ham coworkers on Teams - but I do auto-file them in their own folder. I just wish there would be some standardisation so I wouldn't need to keep making new filters as new serviced appear.)

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Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org<mailto:mda at n1en.org>



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From: Jeff Davis <jeff at ke9v.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 14:45
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Missing E-mail Addresses

Posting one's email on QRZ.com should be a *little* safer than posting it in the wild. After all, you have to have an account on QRZ.com and at least, theoretically, the only folks able to view your email from there would be other hams. Hopefully not spam farms.

But what the original poster was talking about were electronic QSL cards that seem to get generated immediately after a QSO -- and almost always with an LoTW confirmation too. So in this case, hams are spamming other hams with digital QSL cards. It's some automated service that will quickly wear out its welcome, if it hasn't already...

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Jeff, KE9V


On Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 at 10:22 AM, john at kk9a.com <john at kk9a.com> wrote:


> That is not unusual, a lot of US stations also do not add their email
> address.
>
> Many people do not personalize their QRZ account and perhaps some just do
> not want to be contacted that way or they are concerned about spam. One
> disadvantage about not including an email address it is becomes easier for
> someone impersonate the ham on the swap sites because there is no way to
> verify the seller's email address.
>
> John KK9A


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