<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">All,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">I <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">have </div>already started that crusade with one person, and that was me. Probably the hardest one.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> But, there is more to it than that - I am just getting started.</div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">We need to reconcile the fact that putting dots on the map and facilitating messaging are both valid aspects of the hobby. This will require cooperation between the two groups. In order to get that to happen with volunteers, you have to make it easy for them.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">There are good practical reasons to not want to transmit to RF, ALL messages received from APRS-IS. That may mean some received, that may mean none.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> That may mean don't receive them.</div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">And I do truly understand that the tools to shape this are in the IGate client operators control, not the APRS-IS servers. I am a pragmatist - if I am asking questions about the servers, it is to try to understand what is available to use.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">I am not about enforcing standards, that leaves no room to grow and learn, nor does it allow new ideas. I propose organizing what we do have in a clear, detailed, <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">concise manner in a </div>centralized location.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> Organizing it in a way that what we already have scattered around is usable to others.</div> It is unrealistic to expect anyone to search back through this mail list archive to find what has been said over and over again. So it seems the experts are doomed to repeat over and over again, the practical solutions to issues not covered by the spec.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">And then, <i>major mistakes are made with new software development over and over again</i>? That is a symptom of another problem, not the software developers fault. It absolutely can be avoided. Those guys need the <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><i>entire</i> </div>rule<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> book</div> up-front to function effectively.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> </div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Anyone who has responded to me here or on several other forums, thank you. I want to communicate your ideas, more than mine. Although I have been lurking since 2009, i am just a another user - who really doesn't like to talk on the radio, much.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Peace,</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Jim A.</div><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Randy Love <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlove31@gmail.com" target="_blank">rlove31@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Why don't you start by going around to every every RX only IGate operator and convincing them that they it is wrong to not have a two-way IGate? If the only Igate in an area is RX only, that definately breaks the system.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span></div>
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