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[bill dedman]

Dan,

Thanks for your explanation of the way FAST NEWS came to be, and how the infrequent delays happen.

We had a reporting program at Prodigy with drag racing BB members posting, but it was nothing like what Larry, et.al., ultimately put together, though we did cover most national events in the early and mid 1990s.

I am, as I said, thankful for the FAST NEWS service, since I come from an era in time where you had to wait 3 months and read about it in Hot Rod magazine if you wanted to know who won what at a national event.

I'm not kidding!

I read your post with interest and appreciate the time you took to write it.

I didn't, however, see an answer to my main question, which was ,"... tell me why NHRA doesn't just initiate a "live feed" of the on-site computer system that would (FOR A FEE) give us poor barstuds sitting at home, "live" access to the incremental times, reaction times, speeds and e.t.'s, etc.,. as they happen?"

You did say that NHRA and Comp-U-Link are indecisive as to who owns that data stream, but wouldn't it be in SOMEBODY'S best interest to litigate it and find out, so that whoever DOES own it, could sell it, as I have described?

What am I missing here?????

Bill