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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Stargate Deployment: possibilities
Message-ID: <566@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 15:31:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 15:31:49 1985
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I've had a ham license for years, and I've been watching the packet
radio developments quite closely.  In the recent past, I've been
informally solicited regarding my opinions of ham liability
for messages passing through their own digital repeaters (people
are finally starting to worry about that) and how to avoid jamming 
of digital radio links (remember that any bozo with a transmitter can
cause lots of trouble and be very difficult to track down).

I fully support the amateur radio services.  I simply suspect that
the rules that govern ham operations (by which I've had to abide
for years in my own ham operations) would not permit a great deal
of netnews-type traffic to flow.  I also have some doubts about
the desire of the ham community to have piles of garbage dumped
on them in any case, but that's another issue entirely.

--Lauren--