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In article <1992Oct15.004439.26702@mtnsys.wimsey.bc.ca> feng@mtnsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Feng Chen) writes:
>God only knows if anyone in Vancouver ever found the weather forecasts
>in this newsgroup useful.  I can see that the umich service from which
>they were obtained would be useful for getting info. for other parts of
>the world, but for local weather the recorded message at 664-9010 always
>was more timely.
>
>It was van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (or is that vanbc now?) which used to poll
>umich for the forecasts, by the way.  If you ask politely, I'm sure
>Stuart Lynne (who runs that site) will enlighten us as to why he canned
>the cron job that did the polling.

Well.... it got lost in a system upgrade.

But the longer story is that it was a bit flakey anyhow, it was only 
supposed to be a demonstration to see if people liked it. I was (and still
am) waiting for Environment Canada to setup a link to here to give us the
four daily Vancouver weather reports direct from the source. They promised
to do so September '91.

If people are interested I'll bug them again. They seem to be interested
in the idea, but perpetually short of someone to actually implement it. 
The data is actually coming off a small Unix box, but they don't want to
just setup a uucp link, but instead use some proprietary communication
package and zmodem it up. But of course instead of taking a half hour
that the uucp version would take, it's taken a year :-(

Anyhow if you want BC.Weather send me email. If I get some positive responses
I'll phone them up and see if we can get some movement out of them.

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