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Subj: Re: G8PZT > Locked down?
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : ALL@WW
Hi Paula and all,
You asked for my thoughts but all I can say is I have mixed feelings about
packet bulls showing up on the internet. So far I have only seen them on
Amateur BBS reflectors but still should I run a search on my callsign it pops
up every place I use it for my screen name (I'm registered on several radio
related discussion boards) including the reflectors. There bulls go back
YEARS and I'm rather surprised at myself for what I posted way back when.
Yeah, you remember the famous battles and who constantly referred to sysops
who use internet forwarding as land line lids. Well, at least they finally
learned how to do it right and those problems were eliminated.
Like I said I have mixed feelings about the reflectors, there are pros and
cons and you're right, the genie is long out of the bottle. For what it's
worth I learned my lesson the hard way, after finding myself buried in e-mail
spam I deleted my address from my sig line but it took AGES for the flood to
abate. I have no reason to hide license info though, it's all in the FCC
database on line anyway.
One most certainly good thing, at least the reflectors now are one way
streets. I remember not long ago when UK CB callsigns showed up and there was
a flood of posts that could not be replied to, at first I thought they were
hams and something was wrong with their BBSes. It took a while but I figured
it out, their callsigns were strikingly similar to entry level Amateur calls.
We had that here way back when 11M CB started, the first two characters were
reversed, 2W as opposed to W2 and when they ran out the FCC went to 2Q. I
remember the last of those was still around in 1965 when I was KMD7606 and a
XYL a couple of towns away was 2Q5468.
I guess you can see the point I'm illustrating, I really can't complain
because things have been worse, MUCH worse.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 16:50 on 2012-Dec-28 GMT
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