Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!photon!kurt From: kurt@photon.tamu.EDU (Kurt Freiberger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: finger weather is discontinued Message-ID: <14784@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 16 Apr 91 19:08:32 GMT References: <1991Apr12.132907.25449@athena.mit.edu> <441@platypus.uofs.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: kurt@photon.tamu.EDU (Kurt Freiberger) Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University Lines: 27 In article <441@platypus.uofs.edu>, bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: |> |> 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?? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Bill, I'm surprised at your naivete!! They are charging you for the SERVICE of providing this valuable information! After all, it probably takes the equivalent of a bank of Crays to process this so it can be sent to all the radio and TV stations so that they can come up with their authoritative weather predicions. We mere mortals cannot be trusted with this raw information. It might upset the balance of civilization as we know it! As Louie XIV said, "It's good to be the king." #include Cheers, Kurt P.S. Willis still doesn't have his call; he's climbing the wall!!!! 8-} -- Kurt Freiberger, wb5bbw kurt@cs.tamu.edu 409/847-8706 Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University