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To: cypherpunks@toad.com From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) Subject: Caribbean Internet Services?

A brief note, though the hardship to the Caribbean islands will not be brief. St. Thomas, St. Croix, and other islands were hit extremely hard by hurricane Marilyn. Previous hurricanes, including Luis, also hit some of the islands.

ObCypherpunks Relevance: A couple of past or current list members have nascent Internet plans in some of these islands. (I think one of them is way south, just off Venezuela.)

I suspect "Caribbean Data Havens" and "Internet Sites" are further off than they were a few months ago.

Satellite dishes and a steady supply of gasoline via a couple of tankers would make such an operation completely portable. A more ideal solution would be to moore a ship in international waters (wasn't some group wanting to do this for 'humanitarian' reasons or somesuch?). Jim Choate