I guess for the same reason that us ham's have been passing traffic going back to the very start of it. RTTY - CW - SSB - PACKET - AMTOR and PACTOR. I don't see a thing wrong with a ham that happens to be at sea (without internet or cell service) sending a message to ever how likes.
Before one would pass the message from ham station to station till it got close to where is was going. They a ham could pick up the phone and call the party that is was going to. Now from sea to the first land station to email.... I relayed direct to you because as moderator of the list I'm about to shut down this thread. We went over the very same thing for going on 5 weeks last year. John, W0JAB >Why in the world would hams want non-hams to use amateur frequencices for >email? Why in the world would some hams desire to give up THEIR frequenices >to email? > >Just a thought, > >Buddy WB4M > > > > >Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster >telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > >Our other groups: > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
