Comment Re:"For Computer Programmers" (Score 2) 213
"Machinery" is from 1947. Back then you didn't type your code, you wire-wrapped it.
Well 44.0.0.0/8 is entirely allocated for amateur radio use, so it's a slightly different situation. It was allocated back when IPs were given away willy-nilly and is so randomly utilized that condensing the space and recovering any of it would be an interesting proposition.
Packet radio is so niche that that particular subnet will probably never even get close to full, so there's no harm in you still having your chunk.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.