Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!platypus!bill From: bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: finger weather is discontinued Message-ID: <441@platypus.uofs.edu> Date: 16 Apr 91 16:47:01 GMT References: <1991Apr12.132907.25449@athena.mit.edu> Organization: University of Scranton, Scranton, PA Lines: 19 I'm not sure how this commercial outfit gets the data, but it apparently originates at the various NWS offices. There was a real nice X-windows Weather Map program that just suffered the same fate. Now I have a suggestion for a possible solution. Maybe what is needed is for people to find out how this information is collected from the NWS and then if possible, try and find INTERNET sites near each of the NWS stations (I am near AVP) and get them a connection so that we can gather the info ourselves. Then all we need is a central site to hold and distribute the information. After all, isn't it our tax money that is generating this data in the first place?? bill -- Bill Gunshannon | If this statement wasn't here, bill@platypus.uofs.edu | This space would be left intentionally blank bill@tuatara.uofs.edu | #include