On 4/4/99 2:50 PM Jeff King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Steve Dimse K4HG wrote:
>
>You might want to re-read the last message I sent you, I went into some
>detail as to some easy things to improve APRS without any need to
>"scrap" the protocol.
>
I didn't respond because I thought we had agreed to disagree. While you
get a woody designing and building a complex system that only you and a
handful of your fellow technical elite are able to build and use, I get
off on using my skills to build something that the average ham can plug
in and use. Even though I started as a techie, my experience as physician
has given me a sensitivity for the needs of others. That is not to say
that I do it out of altruism. Just like you, I do it for myself, because
I enjoy it. Neither one of us is right or better than the other. Just
different.
>Oh, you never answered my question in my last e-mail. If someone were to
>come up with an alternate lower layer transport mechanism, would you
>support this in your APRSserver application? As I said, this would require
>little or no work on your part..... the radio<>internet gateway software
>could
>put it in the format you expect.
>
If it is no work on my part, then I don't have to support it, right ;-)
Otherwise, I'm not going to make a blanket committment without seeing
what you come up with and exactly what is involved in supporting it. At
this time I am only doing maintenance on APRServe, so I can devote my
time to my Pic-E projects and XMLserve.
Steve K4HG
