From: John Smith on Fri 5 Aug 2005 09:00


Here the NCI offers proof and spells it out, just in case these old key
tappers are in danger of pulling some wool over your eyes...

http://www.nocode.org/articles/filter.html

As some have noted in the past, "There are liars, and there are DAMN LIARS!"

...or, as one 7 hostile (personality) action murine would have it,
"LIAR PUTZ, LIAR PUTZ, LIAR PUTZ!!!" :-)

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John, it may interest you to note that NCI was conceived and
begun by Bruce Perens, himself a 20 WPM tested Extra...a few
years BEFORE the release of 98-143 and dropping of the present
code test to 5 WPM.

It isn't that No Code International is that influential, but that
it is a coming-together of LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS from all over
the world to banish the administrations' "necessity" for a morse
code test. The IARU got convinced and was a major mover and
shaker to rewrite S25 and to make morse testing optional in S25.5.
Carl Stevenson of NCI was on the scene in Geneva two years ago
to help push that along.

Elimination of a federal test for morsemanship started as a
small snowball decades ago. It has been rolling along steadily
for years, gathering momentum, gathering mass, and now has
become HUGE. We must pity those who stand in its path since
this is no Tienanmen Square and the no-code-test "tanks" aren't
stopping for anything or anybody. squish, squish

ave mar