The power companies actually propose this every few years and
then find it to be too large an investment. I hope that is
true now too.

Regardless, the FCC is pretty certainly going to encourage
it as much as possible. Katherine Abernathy, the FCC
commisioner who gave the "BPL is Nirvana" speech recently,
used to work for "Broadband Office Communications", for a
start...

It will be a sad day if it comes about with no protection
for the HF spectrum users. We've worried for a long time
that someone would like to take our freqs away from us for
their own use, but to use the HF spectrum as a garbage can
is even worse.

Perhaps we should start a rumor that it will be easy to
decode people's keystrokes by listening to the power lines?
Or better yet, perhaps it will be. Don't tell Ashcroft...

Derek aa5bt