<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Jim Alles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb3tbx@gmail.com" target="_blank">kb3tbx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote<wbr>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">I don't wan't to re-invent the wheel here.</span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then let's look at the immediately preceding wheel. Scott Miller (I believe) ran APRSWiki for approx nine years, a remarkably good knowledge database, at <a href="http://info.aprs.net" target="_blank">info.aprs.net</a>. As Steve joked about at the beginning of this thread, APRSWiki failed to leverage the APRS community and ended up being a tremendous amount of work for the ultimately responsible hosting parties. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Last June, the web server for <a href="http://info.aprs.net" target="_blank">info.aprs.net</a> failed, at which point a new operator was solicited, which garnered zero response on the list (not even any congratulatory or remorseful remarks). <a href="http://info.aprs.net">info.aprs.net</a> went offline to practically no fanfare.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">How is what you're describing not exactly like that which has just been shuttered due to a lack of success?<br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-7720714476871358624m_-100117605592452105gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.c<wbr>om/</a></div></div>
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