Re: Responding to Emailed QSLs
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Joe,? I think you have the best solution.? I have been printing the email "telegram" and then hitting delete.? Better not to respond in any way.? My QRZ page is clear about?what I will and won't accept for confirmation.? I won't remove my email address because it is legitimately useful for my purposes but to answer any of these emails is just inviting trouble.? I have not yet determined if any of these match actual QSOs so from now, I'm not going to bother printing them for future research.? I hope everyone will come to a solution to this issue.? I continue to use LOTW, Buro cards, and direct cards.? With cost of mailing going up even Buro and direct is getting too burdensome.? If ARRL would accept other sources as confirmation I'd consider them.
73,
Guy K4CNF
On 2025-05-01 3:37 PM, Ted Bauer via wrote:
> There's always the DELETE key; or one could set up filters to move
> emails from designated sources to SPAM .
The damage is done before the delete key can be used.? Lacking a
"bounce" a commercial e-mail generator can assume the address is,
at least, valid.? Filters require reviewing anything in "SPAM" to
confirm the filter is not triggering falsely on valid e-mail and
that opens one to hidden payloads.
Unsolicited commercial e-mail is, arguably, an illegal invasion
of one's privacy and everything should be done to discourage such
activity.? If one really wants a confirmation they can mail a
physical card or use LotW ... or, forbid, send a personal e-mail.
73,
? ? ... Joe, W4TV
On 2025-05-01 3:37 PM, Ted Bauer via wrote:
> Joe, W4TV wrote, in part:
>
> Perhaps ARRL should provide legitimate bureau staff access to the
> member directory (with e-mail) ...
>
> That would be great, Joe. Unfortunately not everyone belongs to ARRL (and
> more are leaving...I wonder why!),
> and its highly unlikely ARRL would provide such a service to us sorters.
> ARRL has indicated its funding for the
> incoming buro is living on borrowed time.
>
> There's always the DELETE key; or one could set up filters to move emails
> from designated sources to SPAM .
>
> 73
> ---
> Ted? ?WA3AER
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 3:28?PM Joe Subich, W4TV via <lists=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
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>> On 2025-05-01 3:17 PM, Ted Bauer via wrote:
>>
>>>? From where I sit, if you want cards from the buro, you need to
>>> provide an email address where QRZ.com provides the field for you to
>>> enter it.
>> Perhaps ARRL should provide legitimate bureau staff access to the
>> member directory (with e-mail) rather than require amateurs to
>> expose themselves to additional unsolicited commercial (spam)
>> e-mail in order to receive cards from the bureau.
>>
>> In any case, e-mail should not be necessary if users keep envelopes
>> (with current address) on file with the bureau.? We certainly did
>> not have access to e-mail 40 years ago when I was a letter manager
>> with the 8th area bureau.? In the worst case a post card to the
>> station's Callbook address was sufficient.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>? ? ? ... Joe, W4TV
>>
>> On 2025-05-01 3:17 PM, Ted Bauer via wrote:
>>> I see a lot of entries w/o bio.
>>> There have been lots of suggestions here about handling the
>>> electronic/email QSLs. Each has it's merit, and it's an individual choice
>>> on how to handle them.
>>>? ?From where I sit, if you want cards from the buro, you need to provide
>> an
>>> email address where QRZ.com provides the field for you to enter it.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> ---
>>> Ted? ?WA3AER
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 1, 2025, 15:03 Earl Needham via <kd5xb=
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What if one would remove the email address and then put it close to the
>>>> top of the bio?? Would that stop the email cards and still allow bureau
>>>> workers to get the info?
>>>>
>>>> Earl / KD5XB
>>>>
>>>> Sent from Proton Mail Android
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> On 5/1/25 12:28 PM, Ted Bauer via wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Juergen wrote, in part:
>>>> looks as if they all use the email-information given in (for
>>>> sender and receiver of the card). If you take out your email
>> information in
>>>> qrz. <>
>>>>
>>>> As a buro card sorter who relies on QRZ.com, I hope this advice is not
>>>> taken to heart. We rely on QRZ to get email addresses to communicate
>> with
>>>> buro account holders! When there's no email address, the alternative is
>> to
>>>> waste postage and envelopes to try to contact buro users. That gets to
>> be a
>>>> big expense after a while.
>>>>
>>>> 73
>>>> ---
>>>> Ted? ?WA3AER
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ---
>>>> Ted? ?WA3AER
>>>>
>>>>
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