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- Packet-Radio Digest Sun, 17 Feb 91 Volume 91 : Issue 46
-
- Today's Topics:
- 'To:' field anarchy! (2 msgs)
- Has Part 97 changed THAT much? (was Re: PACKET->Internet Gateway) (2 msgs)
- Internet->packet Gateway
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- Date: 7 Feb 91 14:16:52 GMT
- From: mcsun!ukc!acorn!agodwin@uunet.uu.net (Adrian Godwin)
- Subject: 'To:' field anarchy!
- To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <1991Feb6.190903.1295@axion.bt.co.uk> blloyd@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk writes:
- >Well, a fair few of us BBS writers read this newsgroup, so maybe this would
- >be a good place to work out something better. I've added an LG command
- >(List Group) to my software which lists all the TO `groups' and the number
- >of messages in each group. You can also type LG group_name (eg LG RAYNET)
-
- This sounds good, but the main point I wanted to make was that there should be
- some encouragement whilst actually posting - so users are gently reminded that
- they're posting outside the currently accepted set of topics. I don't think
- educating users is sufficient - there will always be new users who don't know
- the netiquette, and don't RTFM.
- Gentle prompting towards a more conveniently organised system seems much more
- likely to work, provided that such a system is seen as good by most users.
-
- Aliases might be used to remap common TO errors into the more accepted set.
-
- It seems wrong to treat one group name differently from others, but perhaps an
- entry to ALL should result in an additional prompt to try and obtain a more
- specific subject from the user - there's likely to be so many users posting to
- ALL that an automatic offer to create a group called that would soon be taken up,
- and no more warnings would be produced. (Yes, I know I argued differently
- previously - I'm just thinking it through :-))
-
- I suspect that having a concept of a 'current group' as used by most other
- newsreading software means less typing to select a batch of related news items -
- but perhaps that's just my prejudice.
- I certainly find the requirement to remember a whole list of 'interesting'
- article numbers, then typing them in 6 at a time fairly irritating - but then
- I'm used to a network terminal where it's often quicker to read every article,
- hitting the 'junk' key after reading a few lines, than selecting subjects from
- a list.
-
- I imagine that the user information stored on current BBSs is quite small, and
- would be vastly increased by tracking the articles read in each group, rather
- than globally. Is this likely to be a problem ? Do packet BBSs have much larger
- user bases than telephone BBSs ?
-
- I'm not especially interested in a religious argument about the merits of using
- TCP/IP for news distribution - though I would be interested to read a balanced
- summary of any previous discussions. It may well be that news will eventually be
- distributed between BBSs and TCP/IP users by another method, and fixed TO
- groups would certainly assist that. If you feel inclined to start that war,
- consider this discussion to be about user interfaces to newsreaders/posters,
- regardless of whether that interface runs locally or on the BBS.
-
- --
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- Adrian Godwin (agodwin@acorn.co.uk)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Feb 91 21:59:57 GMT
- From: shelby!paulf%shasta.Stanford.EDU@uunet.uu.net (paulf)
- Subject: 'To:' field anarchy!
- To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
-
- There is an easier solution to all of this. With the conversion of most
- minicomputing lines to RISC architectures (SUN, DEC, SGI et al), there are
- a ton of surplus unix boxes appearing on the market, at prices far less than
- the typical 386 box.
-
- Has anybody written the equivalent of G protocol KISS code?
-
-
- -=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | Without KILL files,
- ->paulf@shasta.Stanford.EDU | life itself would be impossible.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Feb 91 16:45:29 GMT
- From: pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!koning.enet.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Koning)
- Subject: Has Part 97 changed THAT much? (was Re: PACKET->Internet Gateway)
- To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
-
- |>
- |> My copy of Part 97 is in the ARRL "The FCC Rule Book". None of these
- |>paragraphs (a) exist or (b) say the same thing. Has Part 97 really changed
- |>that much since November 1, 1987?
- |>
-
- It certainly has! Part 97 was completely rewritten last year. Throw out
- your ancient copy and get a new one...
-
- paul
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Feb 91 17:07:38 GMT
- From: idacrd!mac@princeton.edu (Robert McGwier)
- Subject: Has Part 97 changed THAT much? (was Re: PACKET->Internet Gateway)
- To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Feb 91 21:39:41 GMT
- From: att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Tadd,KA2DEW, ,3152621123)
- Subject: Internet->packet Gateway
- To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: (null)
- From: (null)
- What if the guy originating the message IS a ham but is typing something
- that he/she doesn't expect to go over ham radio packet?
- Tadd - KA2DEW
-
- [ KA2DEW @ KA2JXI.#NNY.NY.USA.NA - Tadd Torborg ]
- [ torbortc@clutx.clarkson.edu - 26 Maple St - PO Box 330 ]
- [ NEDA (North East Digital Association) Editor - Colton, NY 13625 ]
- [ Clarkson University - 315-262-1123 ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: (null)
- From: (null)
- Yes Dana:
-
- There was a rewrite in 1988, with some other changes made in 1990. The
- ARRL asked that the very paragraphs used in this citation be made more
- explicit and less vague and open to interpretation and the FCC rejected
- the request. The ARRL has tried to make changes that would help but many
- times their efforts have gone awry. The most egregious are the codification
- and sanctification of AX.25L2V2 in Part 97 after we were explicitly
- promised that this would NOT occur and the rewrite in 1988 that included
- more confusing language, and in some cases contradictory language on
- bits, bauds, spectral occupancy, and more. I do wish they would take
- the time to ask people with some expertise/interest to look things over
- and to comment in a timely fashion.
-
-
- These opinions notwithstanding, I am supportive of a strong effort, if not
- by us, then by the FCC to clean up ALL@USA which is in a gray area in Part
- 97 AT BEST IMHO. The ARRL (the general manager in particular) will have
- a policy statement in the NEXT QST which attempts to address this problem
- and call for a solution. Too bad we had to have FCC action before our
- own folks got in behind the problem.
-
- AMSAT-NA, a large use of packet networks for distribution of news, has
- taken an extremely conservative stance of late (the last several months)
- after we had one of our officers, W2RS, point out to us that new bulletins
- containing our telephone number, or announcing software availability, etc.
- was, at best, not in the spirit of those portions of Part 97 concerned
- with business communications. We told WEBER that they could NOT do their
- planned mission (having paid employees do experiments on their satellite)
- using amateur radio frequencies and more. If others don't take similar
- stands, and exercise similar restraint, then the FCC can AND SHOULD step
- in. It is my opinion that they have gone too far with this particular
- set of citations but there is NO ONE to blame buts ourselves.
-
- Bob N4HY
-
- --
- ____________________________________________________________________________
- My opinions are my own no matter | Robert W. McGwier, N4HY
- who I work for! ;-) | CCR, AMSAT, etc.
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