Re public kiosks; recall that Community Memory started the idea of coin-operated kiosks years ago; and presumably still has terminals located around town. The technology is quite simple apparently. Could be genralised pretty easily. The terminals are connected to their servers via off-premise extension circuits, which allow keeping the lines open fulltime at no per-minute charge. Then you drop coins in order to respond to stuff. This of course requires a server in evrey local exchange area where you want terminals, but that should be no problem in most places. -gg