[PaQSO] Logs received query

[Michael Coslo]

On Nov 14, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Hank Greeb wrote:

> Why knot change it so 
> the mail goes to the scoring team first, and then to the money bags.  
> Or, don't you trust the scoring team to not snarf some of the $$'s donated?

I'm the guy who gets the logs.  I also hate handling money, and get other people to do that for me.
No thoughts of thievery. Everything is a tradeoff. When the director was the first to get the mailed logs, we got complaints of taking too long to deposit checks.

> What's the BFD with accepting only electronic logs these daze?  I'd say 
> that the number of hams who do NOT have a computer is vanishingly 
> small.

Because some people still do submit hand done logs, and some moblieers also. 

As long as I am director, a hand written log is every bit as good as anyone else's. I will always accept them. 


>  It is reported that >95% of the general population has a 
> computer, and hams are generally more technologically savvy that the 
> general dolts.  Why do some folks insist on sending hand written logs 
> via the U.S. Postal Service?

I think it is a matter of perspective. I pack and mail out hundreds of certificates, T-shirts, and plaques every year. So the concept of mailing isn't much different than emailing. 

And lest we think of email as some sort of technological cure-all, remember that someone's log is now mixed in with the 90 percent of email that has less noble purposes. Some emails never reach me, being lost in that great bitbucket in the sky. Why? Could be virus, could be a subject line. I dunno.

We do a lot of other things the old fashioned way. I've heard that some contests send a pdf file to winners to print out their own certificates. Yes, we could do that, but then we have no control over the finished product.  But we could save a lot of money. No envelope, no Parchment paper, no labels, no stamps. And in the end, not worth much.

Thank's for the feedback, Hank.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -