On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:39:58 -0500 in rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys, Mike Romain was alleged to have written:
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 ass) of the time. Result: nobody monitors it. Typical result of trying to legislate ordinary behavior.