On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:39:58 -0500 in rec.autos.makers.jeep+******, Mike
Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca> was alleged to have written:
>They don't routinely monitor it now up here in Canada I was told a few
>years back.

Yeah, good point. Once upon a time CB channel 9 was used _mostly_ for
emergency traffic with a minimum of chit-chat by mutual agreement, and a
lot of people monitored it by default. You could call on 9 and switch to
some other channel for a longer conversation. Then it became a violation
to use it for non-urgent purposes, and it went quiet 99.99% (number from
out of my ***) of the time. Result: nobody monitors it. Typical result
of trying to legislate ordinary behavior.