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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Possible group: net.news.weather
Message-ID: <293@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 22:31:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.293
Posted: Wed Aug 28 22:31:23 1985
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    > From: T3B@psuvm.BITNET
    > Newsgroups: net.news.group
    > Subject: Possible group: net.news.weather
    > Message-ID: <2144T3B@psuvm>
    > 
    > Suppose, for travellers, a network of volunteers could post to
    > the net each day, for their region, state, or city, the weather
    > and local forecast.  Each posting could list as its subject line
    > the region/state/ or city and the date.  Could this be
    > dependable?  Would volunteers keep up?  Would it be a copyright
    > or license violation to pull information from local newspaper and
    > radio?  The postings could be set to expire in 1 or 2 days;  the
    > whole group would run, at any one time, perhaps 50 to 100
    > postings.

A cute idea, but the problems I see are:
	a) I doubt that it could be made uniformly reliable
	b) With the slow propagation of netnews, forecasts wouldn't be
	   especially timely after travewrsing a major portion of the net.
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