[Elecraft] Starting CW Conversations

[Dale Wiese]

> I have no idea why so many ISP's force the oddball character 
> into URL's. It's not readable or pronouncable. To me, it just 
> seems wrong.
> 
>

~ is common UNIX/Linux shorthand for "the home directory of".  It is
easy and convenient to set up many web servers to look for a well know
subdirecty in "the home directory of" a user, and service up pages from
there.  There are other ways to do it, ~ is just easy.

Dale W.