Message pools _are_ in use today!

[jim bell]

At 01:13 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Eric Davis wrote:
>
>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).

Anybody know what the total average bps rate for, say, USENET is?


>Think it supports multicast/broadcast by default...

It sounds like it might be a good addition to a network of remailers...
Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com