[UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers

[Andy swiffin]

Hi,

What "does the team think" about the current practice of using letters
rather than numbers in serials?  I know its common  practice to use 'n'
instead of '9' and 't' instead of '0', but I observed dozens of stations
replacing nearly all of the numbers, it came to a head when I received
"5nn aetn from 1 station! 

It doesn't seem right to me, I don't even use 't' very much except when
its at the beginning of the serial (i.e. below 100) when I send it as a
long 't', when I want a zero in the middle of a serial I send a good ol'
Sammy Morse zero.  If its acceptable practice to shorten the numbers
like this I'll do it but I have my doubts.

Cheers
Andy
gm8oeg