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ARLB032 ARLB030 revision/update
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ARRL Bulletin 32 ARLB032
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT March 23, 1993
To all radio amateurs
Message content proposal
The FCC has proposed to change the responsibility for the content of
amateur messages relayed by high-speed networks.
On March 22, 1993, the Commission announced action in Docket 93-85,
in Notice of Proposed Rule Making 93-154, proposing to establish "a
compliance policy for amateur stations participating in automatic
message forwarding systems, to hold the licensee of the station
originating a message and the licensee of the first forwarding
station primarily accountable for violative communications.
"Under this approach," the FCC said, "licensees of stations that
only retransmit messages within a high speed message forwarding
system would not be held accountable for communications they forward
or their stations retransmit unwittingly.
"Under the current rules," the FCC said, "each amateur licensee is
fully responsible for assuring that the contents of every
transmission from his or her station complies with the rules. This
requirement was not a burden when licensees sent each message
manually. With the availablilty of digital technology, however,
some licensees have tied their stations together into high volume,
high speed message forwarding systems. The stations are configured
so that each message is instantly retransmitted to its destination
through a series of stations.
"Because message screening is difficult with these automatic systems
and because screening at each station in these systems diminishes
the advantage of high speed, the Commission proposed holding
accountable only the licensee of the originating station and the
licensee of the first station in a high speed message forwarding
system."
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