[MiQP-Mail] Change in e-mail for contacting MiQP

[David Pruett]

MiQPers:

Since the first implementation of the MiQP web page, there has been an 
e-mail address "miqp at miqp.org" where people could communicate directly 
with the MiQP organizers.  The address simply forwards everything it 
receives to the MiQP chairman (me).

When MiQP contact e-mail was implemented, we even took a simple step to 
(hopefully) protect it from scammers who search the internet for 
addresses to attack with spam.  The address which appears at the bottom 
of the MiQP home page is not text characters, but rather a graphic .gif 
image which is not easily readable by the web crawler robots.

This system has worked very well for many years, however it appears that 
the address has somehow been discovered by the web crawlers, and for the 
past several months the address has been bombarded with junk mail which 
are either scams or lewd and explicit.  Fortunately, I am the only one 
who has had to deal with this trash - none of it was forwarded to the 
MiQP e-mail reflector.

After contacting our Internet Service Provider, we were told that the 
e-mail spam blockers which they have on their servers won't work on a 
forwarding account, only a regular e-mail account on miqp.org.  For this 
reason, as of today (September 30, 2016), we have removed the existing 
miqp@ miqp.org e-mail account and replaced it with a new, regular e-mail 
account "info" at "miqp.org" (all one word with the "@" symbol, of course).

For you, the user, nothing with change other than the address you use to 
communicate with the MiQP organizers.  Thins change has no effect on the 
MiQP e-mail reflector or the MiQP log submission web page.

This e-mail was intended to bring the change to your attention and 
explain the reason behind it.  The MiQP home page will be updated 
shortly after this e-mail is sent.  We apologize for any inconvenience 
this change may cause.

73,

Dave Pruett, K8CC
Chairman, Michigan QSO Party