On Or About 17 Aug 96, 5:24, Brian C. Lane wrote:

How about an orbiting DataHaven. No jurisdiction to bother with, extremely difficult to get to (except by large governments...).

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it would work. Might even be cheaper than outfitting the oil-rig with the rate that they are tossing satellites into space.

If the HAM radio community can get a satellite into space, why not the Cypherpunks/Linux communities?

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