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   Message 4,423 of 5,937   
   Dee Flint to Doug Smith   
   Re: Misdirected QSL: WWYD?   
   04 Mar 09 07:40:32   
   
   From: deeflint01@comcast.net   
      
   "Doug Smith"  wrote in message   
   news:OJWdnRATxv5ovTPUnZ2dnUVZ_q_inZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > So, someone with a callsign similar to mine* has been operating from   
   > various Caribbean QTHs on and off for quite a few years.   
   >   
   > As you might guess, I occasionally get QSL cards for Caribbean   
   > operations.  Wish I'd spent February on Bonaire, but I was freezing up   
   > here in Tennessee...   
   >   
   > I guess I see several possible ways to dispose of these cards, some more   
   > ethical than others:   
   >   
   > - Forward them to Jim.   
   >   
   > - Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from   
   > Bonaire".   
   >   
   > - Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from   
   > Bonaire - I think you worked someone else with a similar callsign." - but   
   > not tell them what that similar callsign is.   
   >   
   > - Return them to the sender with a note "Sorry, I've never operated from   
   > Bonaire - " and tell them who I think they worked.   
   >   
      
   Personally I think this is the best one.  It's what I would do and would   
   want others to do if I miscopied a calll.  Kind of like the Goldern Rule:   
   Do unto others as you would have the do unto you.  The next best thing is   
   forwarding them to Jim except that it might not be him either.  So you   
   really should return them to the sender.   
      
   Dee, N8UZE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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