Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!splut!jay From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: packet.radio Message-ID: <544@splut.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 22:52:31 GMT References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> <13@n0atp.UUCP> <977@ficc.UUCP> Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 24 In article <977@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <13@n0atp.UUCP>, barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) writes: >> I had hoped to put USENET onto packet radio... >It might be possible to set up a top-level distribution, moderated by >Hams. This would satisfy any requirements that Hams originate messages >sent over Ham frequencies, and would obviate the obscenity problem. Well, it would help, but wouldn't completely obviate the problem. There's always a way around moderation (witness Bob Webber's attempted takeover of news.stargate shortly before its demise). >The question is, how do other Hams feel about having some of their >rapidly-vanishing bandwidth taken up by Usenet? Considering some of the junk floating around the packet waves, I'm not sure at all that Usenet wouldn't be a huge improvement. Certainly more interesting, anyway. (That's IMHO, of course.) -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!