From: Roger Barker <roger@...>
Also, anyone who can do a few sums can easily show that the total volume
of traffic being generated by UI-View use will pale into insignificance
compared to a user downloading a few bulletins from the BBS.
The real problem is that:-
(a) An attitude has developed in the UK that "packet = using the BBS
network", and the packet channels are to be used for nothing other than
accessing BBSs.
(b) Packet has almost ceased to be an amateur radio mode. Not only do
some users never think of packet in terms of self-training and
experimentation, but they complain if anyone else does!
As a Sysop here at Rugeley (GB7RUG), a BBS which looks after 40+ users, I
encourage the use of UI-VIEW on my mailbox 144.850Mhz port, via a seperate
machine running UI-View, interlinked to the main node and mailbox. I can
support no Sysop that doesn't! There is nothing to support the argument,
that UI-VIEW is taking over or increasing traffic on mailbox ports. The
mailbox and its users,
are unaffected by the passive UI frames, while they are connected to the
mailbox.
I take an active approach, by encouraging all my users to try experimentation
and new additions within Packet radio, whether it be hardware or software. If
we fail to try these new, modes, which encourage good software writers like
Roger, and hardware designers, where will packet Radio be in the next be in
the next 10years?
UI-View in the future will be a very valuable asset to Amateurs, and other
aspects of life in the future, its up to "all" to support it!
Steve (G1KQH) Sysop @ GB7RUG.#28.gbr.eu
