Hamish Moffatt wrote: > FWIW, there's no such restriction in the Australian regulations, > as far as I can see.
I concur, that's generally correct. The ACA has relaxed the profane language requirements somewhat since they were tested in court (by a commercial broadcast radio operator) some time back.. my recollection is that a judge declared some of the most profane of words to be in common use and therefore unreasonable to prohibit. > I would say that it's up to the packet radio gateway to edit/discard > posts that don't meet the regulations, since their requirements are > stricter than the Internet's. In Australia it has always been the case that the responsibility for traffic transmitted by an amateur station lies with the operator of the transmitting station, not with the original source of the content. I operated an Internet/packet radio gateway in Australia for many years and we became finely tuned to the sensibilities of the legal requirements balanced against a sense of the reasonable. In my opinion given the mixed legal requirements the appropriate action is people to decide on an individual basis whether to gateway internet mailing lists over radio or not. I believe that, generally, it is unreasonable to have a majority constrained by the requirements of a minority. regards Terry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
