At 08:28 PM 7/1/96 -0700, David Wagner wrote:
If folks have better ideas for how to achieve really good recipient anonymity, I hope they'll speak up!
(BTW, for a few years a company called "Planet Connect" has been providing FIDOnet data feeds, although they use the older-style, large antenna systems, and their data rate is 19.2kbps, not even close to enough for Internet service.)
There is another small company (used to be called Pagesat and now called NCIT) that provides a 115.2 kb compressed (gzip) forward error corrected feed of the entire USENET in near real time over a Ku band satellite - not big ugly 8-10 foot dish C band, but a 1 meter VSAT style fixed offset fed Ku dish (bigger than DSS - more the size of Primestar). (Satellite is K2 and soon will be GE-1). Pagesat/NCIT markets this service primarily to medium and small size ISPs, but it is available to individuals willing to pay $400/yr for the service and about $600-$1000 for the hardware. Dave Emery die@die.com