Bj”rn Felten wrote to David Drummond on Monday May 14 2007 at 21:14:


 BF>    I do find it amusing however to switch between your, Ross' and my
 BF> system -- three different continents by a click of a mouse. It's
 BF> unfortunate that Doug's and Matt's systems don't seem to work any more
 BF> -- but then again I already *do* have their continent covered.

 BF>    It would be nice to have someone from zone 4 or 5 set up a JamNNTPd
 BF> server; then I would have almost the entire world available.

Hmmm... Reminds me of my other hobby: HAM radio. There are hams who make it
a point of contacting as many parts of the world as they can. A nice first
start is the WAC. Workes All Continents. Or if you want to keep it local,
WAP; Worked All Provinces.

Once I was driving through England on our way to Ireland with my father in
his VW camper. I had my HF rig installed in it and I made contact with a
Swedish HAM who was looking for all bayliffwicks in England or something
like that. So I kept the line open and we exchanged callsigns every 20 km
or so while I was moving west on the Motorway. Helped him to a lots of
point for the award he was hunting for.

Maybe we should do the same as the hams: issue awards for contacting BBSs... ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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