Message pools _are_ in use today!

[Eric Davis]

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
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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 at pacifier.com
>