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LDM-users, I am a little torqued this morning, and I think for just cause. The National Weather Service promised us unencrypted NIDS on NOAAPport on January 1, but it never happened! Just a "well, we hope to have it up by January 12!". After hyping it up everywhere for months and months, now they fall silent! I'm sorry, I am slamming the NWS, because this really does damage their integrity on when we can expect products from them. Sure, there have been lots of last-minute delays, but they'd always send out a statement in the past about it. I cancelled the NIDS portion of my WSI contract on 1/1/2001, expecting unencrypted data by 1/2/2001! Now I'm left hanging, and no peep from the NWS on a solid date. This is just terrible. Even a simple message of something like "delayed indefinitely due to technical problems" on December 31 would have frustrated me, but made me happy to know what to expect and adjust for it. Sorry, but I am NOT happy this morning... ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: gilbert@xxxxxxx (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************
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