12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
4:06 a.m.
K7VE - John wrote:
This is a volunteer effort -- looking up physical
addresses, buying postage, and mailing is just not something that is going to happen.
(Any money for postage should be donated to Brian's account for the expenses he has
incurred.)
I have considered sending mail to [callsign](a)amsat.org and maybe [callsign](a)veron.nl and
[callsign](a)vrza.nl
(two local societies that provide similar forwarding service) to attempt to contact all
those
amateurs who have registered an address in the past.
However, I decided to delay that at least until the portal is finished (and DNS is managed
through it),
so I can include full directions on how to manage the entries without open end about name
registration,
and first I will contact the managers of those services to find out what will happen to me
when
I send 2400 mail messages to addresses of which a large fraction may not even exist.
(I don't want to be blocked as a spammer)
What I already did is perform an automatic lookup against the current callsign register
and
delete all callsigns that expired. That reduced the list by 373 entries.
Rob