Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: packet.radio
Message-ID: <10296@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 23 Jun 88 17:02:04 GMT
References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> <13@n0atp.UUCP> <977@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <977@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>The question is, how do other Hams feel about having some of their
>rapidly-vanishing bandwidth taken up by Usenet? Comments solicited
>from splut!jay and any other Hams on the net.

With the increasing popularity of Phil Karn's TCP/IP packet software,
it won't be very difficult to set up a USENET like news network for
hams based on NNTP.

I can appreciate Jay's comments about some of the drivel found in the
ham bands these days :-)  Just as USENET has news.groups vs comp.arch,
the ham's have 80 metres vs the local "high-tech" repeaters ...

Because packet radio is a small subset of the diverse areas of activity
taking place in the amateur bands, I don't think you'll find enough
people with the gear or time to commit to building a parallel USENET.

--lyndon  VE6BBM
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