Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose!
Keywords: The NET need not die...
Message-ID: <10288@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 15 Jun 88 03:35:20 GMT
References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> <13@n0atp.UUCP> <2744@ttrdc.UUCP> <974@ucsd.EDU> <14@n0atp.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <14@n0atp.UUCP> barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) writes:
>    The point is the Net does not have to die, or even limit the groups.
>    We can still have a freebe as long as HAMS are willing to act as the
>    backbone.  One Ham station per city acting as a gateway...all calls
>    for subsequent feeds could be local calls.  This can be done using a
>    moderate sized micro as the news hub for an entire city.  Point to
>    point communications would occur between Ham sites and forwarded to
>    a distribution hub if the Ham site chose not to be a distributor.
>    Transmission speeds intercity could be slow (1200 baud) as the links
>    never need be broken...(ie think of them as a 4 wire dedicated circuit)

The discussion about content, distribution, etc., is not relevent. The
one section of the rules governing amateur radio that wipes this entire
concept out is this:

	Only an amateur radio operator may initiate any communication
	that takes place via amateur radio.

This means that "every" article would have to be verified by a licensed
amateur prior to it's transmission over the air. That same operator would
also be liable in any subsequent legal dispute over the article.

Ham radio is not a replacement for the telephone system, Telenet, or
any common carrier.

Sorry folks, but it's time everyone realized that if usenet is to
continue, all the users will have to start sharing the costs. Period.

--lyndon  VE6BBM

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