----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> FWIW, in my experience, when ARES and RACES both arrive on a scene > together, they rarely get into small arms fire over any thing, rather, > preferring to work together to help each other set up both repeaters and to > coordinate which parts of the workload will be handled by which operation in > order to maximize the efficiency with which the job gets done. Ok; I started this, so I guess I should finish it. I'm sure when the rubber(-duckies) hit the road, everyone gets along fine. I was talking more about political stuff internal to the orgs in some places, WRT interfacing with the officials *before* there are active emergencies. I gather that's a bit dicey and old-boy-ish in at least some locales. Cheers, -- jra