14 Dec
2000
14 Dec
'00
11:20 p.m.
At 11:25 PM 12/13/00 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
A gateway from alt.anonymous.messages might be fun anyway. Back when people read Usenet on their own machines, instead of getting it from an ISP via NNTP clients, Usenet groups gave readers Pretty Good Obscurity. That might still be the case at universities or companies that maintain their own news feeds, but there aren't a lot any more, especially since a full newsfeed takes multiple T1s full-time.
Ahh, but one can remain anonymous in reading the Usenet feed if one subscribes to one of the satellite broadcast services (often used by ISPs in developing nations where bandwidth is expensive). steve