[ADXA] Canadian electronic QSL cards

[WB5JJJ]

I checked this morning and my "Canada"  and "USA" folders in Gmail, almost
100 QSL cards from each.  I checked about half and NONE were asking for a
QSL card in return.  It looks to me like that these sites are skimming the
hams logbook and emailing a card to everybody they log.  I had several from
a few hams that were duplicates as they work me over and over on same band
and mode.  So it must be automatic.

This technology is not new, but it is becoming more SPAMMY than useful.  It
seems like Canada put out a "notice to hams" to use this service.

I don't think a single one of those I've received for all over the world,
are ones that I need.  I'm probably going to set a filter in Gmail to send
all of them to a different trash bucket for long term storage, just in
case.  I don't want to flag them as SPAM since some recipients might really
enjoy getting them.  I'm just not one of them.  It's kinda gotten like eQSL
with all the guys just hoping I'll confirm a contact that never happened.
I left eQSL over 4 years ago now.

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73's
George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105
Cell - 479.857.7737
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