On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:02:47 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

IN effect, it's a pay twice system. We pay NOAA for NWS data which
is given to private companies which happily sell that data back to the
general public.

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That's exactly like the sweetheart deal that the Feds gave to Maptech
for production of digital navigation charts.