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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
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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
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