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- From: terryd@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Terry Dawson)
- Subject: Re: USENET news on packet
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- Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:59:07 GMT
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- Steve_Wright@kcbbs.gen.nz (Steve Wright) writes:
-
- >We don't need to feed the entire contents of USENET NEWS to *every* .ampr.org
- >address, but feed major internet interest groups (sci.*.*,rec.radio.*,
-
- Granted, but even the volume of traffic generated by the groups you cite
- would be more than we could cope with at the moment.
-
- >most of the political problems. Also, some BBS with Internet access may make
- >available a dial up SLIP line you can connect NOS directly to the internet.
-
- That can't/doesn't currently happen in Austrlalia because it isn't posisble,
- but yeah, sure I understand the concept, I still think we are barking up
- the wrong tree if we want to look at large volume distribution. Radio is
- fun, but without (as Craig mentioned in another posting) large volumes
- of money to tie up, you can't get reasonable sorts of high speed networks
- going. yet.
-
- >>Better to find a large company that has some unused bandwidth on their nation
- >>pabx system and lobby them for the use of it, in exchange for some advertisin
- >>or some such.
- >yes, but it's not ham radio. I agree with you (we're looking at doing it in
-
- And neither was the original proposal .. the original proposal was to
- use radio to carry telephone bss traffic, that is to what I was suggesting
- the above.
-
- >available free of charge. Sure we have to build/buy the gear to do it and in
- >some situations it may cost many times more that a dial-up line, but we are
- >**RADIO HAMS** and radio hams do it with RF (no elaborations on RF please!)
-
- Even if it can be done better some other way ? I advocate Geostationary
- satellites, a network of them, until we can do that, we have buckleys chance
- of achieving what we want.
-
- Terry
-
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