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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio.packet
Subject: Re: Non-callsigns as addresses
Message-ID: <757@petrus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 22:51:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 22:51:41 1985
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I'm not particularly worried about the legality of this, because something
that is technically "broadcasting" is okay if its purpose is to facilitate
the process of two-way communication. For example, it'll be hard to do
automatic routing some day if prohibitions on "broadcasting" are interpreted
very strictly. As long as you ID in some standard fashion, I don't see any
legal reason why you can't put non-callsigns in AX.25 address fields.

Not to say that you SHOULD do this, however. I AM bothered by the tendency
of the average packeteer to come up with quick and clever hacks that'll
just come back to bite us later when we try to provide the same functions in
a cleaner fashion.

Phil