  Re: ISS Unproto Destination Address  On Wednesday 26 September
2001 10:38, Stan Vandiver wrote:  > I don't believe it is the
sender's responsibility to make sure he is > seen on the
network, as you describe.    Well, if you don't *wish* to be
seen by APRS stations, there's  absolutely no reason why you
should follow APRS formats.  > Not an "open" network anyway.
APRS is not an "open network" in my  > opinion...   It is "open"
in the sense that we use that term in a networking  context. All
the details of the protocol are published, and anyone is  free
to implement them...or not. If you *do* use them, it does make
sense to implement them in such a way as to be a good network
citizen...that is what FCC would call "good amateur practice".
If you  *don't* care to use them, then don't.      >  APRS
should have that same capability.  You need an > "ANY" subset,
or in other words, an OFF button, to turn off the > filter.  You
will let APRS configure any subset except this one.  We have
*several* addresses that