[aprssig] IS-to-RF packet Weighting

[Jason KG4WSV]

It seems to me that too many suggestions around here start out with
"how can we bastardize X that is designed to do Y and make it do Z
instead/also?"

Pete's already given an example (CQ server) of how a _system_ can be
_designed_ to do what you want.  Why the insistence on screwing with
APRS-IS to retrofit an incompatible idea?

Ideally an erroneous packet would be rejected as such by existing
implementations.  Unfortunately the APRS protocol is already enough of
a kludge that code is complex and therefore error prone.  We also have
dead products, like UI-View, that clutter (or even dominate) the
landscape.

We DON'T KNOW what the effect of these changes will do to an
individual implementation, much less the worldwide system as a whole.
You can speculate and assume all you want, but you will not know
without implementing and exhaustive testing (and then you still won't
_know_ because APRS is too ill-defined).

-Jason
kg4wsv