Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!
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!
Once they start offering Internet news/email/USENET feeds (one way) by DSS-type dish antenna from satellite, it'll be mighty hard to figure out who's receiving the data. They could probably easily provide 10 megabits per second, which I assume would be more than enough for what's needed. (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.) Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com
Hughes offers a downlink product called DirectPC. The back channel is your regular modem. Telco/Analog your requests to their servers and the data is delivered via your DSS dish, sent to your PC and decoded via an ISA card. (Opt. DES downlink encryption) http://www.direcpc.com/ The downlink is shared 500Kb/s ( I think ). Though you can schedule a higher BW channel for A/V applications (or so the lit reads). Think it supports multicast/broadcast by default... Eric Davis ----------------------------------------------------- Eric Davis ericd@internet.net Director of Information Systems 415-842-7400 (V) Internet Shopping Network 415-842-7415 (F) Visit our site at: http://www.isn.com Personal contact: ericd@cyberfarm.com KD6HTO (R) ----------------------------------------------------- There are no law enforcers if law itself they ignore. -- Inka Inka -- Step Back -- Myth of the Machine -- On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:
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!
Once they start offering Internet news/email/USENET feeds (one way) by DSS-type dish antenna from satellite, it'll be mighty hard to figure out who's receiving the data. They could probably easily provide 10 megabits per second, which I assume would be more than enough for what's needed.
(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.)
Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com
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
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