[aprssig] APRS Message Idea

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Robert Bruninga wrote:

> >What do you all think?   Already available somehow?
>
> Yep, always been there, but only implemented in APRSdos,
> WinAPRS (retry on heard), APRS+SA, APRscs and
> maybe some I dont remember.

Xastir, except that we currently give up after a number of tries
soas to not clog up the channel with messages that won't be
delivered for days.

We do the exponential backoff for message timing.

And we have pretty maps to boot.  Why is that a bad thing?

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