From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Denber.WBST@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Title: Re: Thoughts on CW
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4332
Posted: Tue Nov 23 09:32:51 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 02:53:15 1982

	"if optional, they would be pitched over the rail in short order"

Right - but why stop there?  Let's get rid of speed limit laws, and license plates
for cars - who needs them either?  How about income taxes - if anything ought
to be optional, that's it.  Seriously, if you want to join the club, pay the
admission fee.  For a mere 5 wpm. you can can your very own Tech.  Come on
guys, do you know how *s l o w* that is?  You can pass that just by
memorizing A through Z and doing table lookup in your mind for each letter
(although that's certainly no way to really learn the code).

Sure, there's arguments on both sides, but in the time it takes you to grump
about how unfair life is, you could have learned the code.

"Oh the farmer and the cowboy should be friends,
Oh the farmer and the cowboy should be friends.
One man likes to pound a key,
The other uses SSB,
But that's no reason why they can't be friends."

			- Michel
			  KB2BQ