S. Hanrahan wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:40:57 GMT, Mike Coslo
wrote:


I'm sitting here listening to our local Echolink repeater.
Someone,apparently in Florida, is Kerchunking our local repeater.


That's a fact of life, whether a repeater is linked or not.


Now THAT is the true power of the internet!


What? Kerchunking?

Yeah, just imagine it. We can kerchunk repeaters all over the world.
Kinda gives me goosebumps to see how far we've come!



And yesterday at lunchtime, I heard some talk that you should never
hear on ham radio. Somone with a funky drunky accent going on about his
favorite parts of another guy's anatomy. Shudderrrr.


It should have never been heard on your "local Echolink repeater" had
the control operator pulled the plug on the Echolink. This is a fact
of life when you tie a repeater system into an internet connection.
Increasing the chances of it happening more often than not.


There just isn't enough control of all the repeaters linked into
Echolink for it to be a viable system.


Sure there is. In your case, a responsible control operator, who
values his/her radio's, and the license attached to the linked
repeater.

Yes, certainly in principle. Turning off the repeater is always the
option. But in reality, a person cannot keep constant monitoring for
miscreants. And if the repeater is open to the world, the person
responsible will have to keep a 24/7 vigil.

When almost everyone is well behaved to begin with, it isn't much of a
problem to begin with.

- Mike KB3EIA