Fwd: Re: [Xastir] 'Owning' station ID?

[Eric Gildersleeve]

I believe that having the ability to send a message via a broadcast can be a 
good thing. For example if you were running a search and rescue mission on 
one side of a hill, where you have line of sight then it is ok, but by having 
to move around the other side of the hill, it could take a while for a point 
to point message to find a path. This way the path goes everywhere and the 
person the message is designated for will eventually receive said message. 
Have you ever tried to send an email through APRS? I have and it took almost 
a week for an igate to finally pick it up and send it.

KD7CAO

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:28:01 -0400 (EDT), Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com> wrote:
> > ... If
> > I were to put up an antenna and an RF port, might I be on shaky ground
> > wrt third-party traffic if I enable inet->rf gating?
>
> Nah... If you enable inet->rf gating, the only thing that gets gated
> are APRS "messages" addressed to an RF station which xastir has heard
> locally (for some definition of local) recently (for some definition
> of recent),

  Well, I won't be doing that.  I personally believe that messaging is a
totally inappropriate use of APRS.  Think about it:  using a broadcast
protocol for a point-to-point message, with duplicated, unreliable,
application-level acks is a terrible waste of bandwidth. It's like
carrying on a 'private' conversation using bullhorns across a crowded
sports stadium.  If I had my 'druthers, it'd be stripped from the spec.
We have better protocols, on other frequencies, for that.

--
Rick Green

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
 temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                                  -Benjamin Franklin

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