Re: WB: public kiosks

Re public kiosks; recall that Community Memory started the idea of
coin-operated kiosks years ago; and presumably still has terminals located
around town.  The technology is quite simple apparently.  Could be
genralised pretty easily.  The terminals are connected to their servers via
off-premise extension circuits, which allow keeping the lines open fulltime
at no per-minute charge.  Then you drop coins in order to respond to stuff.
This of course requires a server in evrey local exchange area where you want
terminals, but that should be no problem in most places.

-gg

>Re public kiosks; recall that Community Memory started the idea of
>coin-operated kiosks years ago; and presumably still has terminals located
>around town.  

For those of you not familiar with Community Memory, it is a Berkeley
only system intended to make community stronger in Berkeley.  Steven
Levy wrote about it in _Hackers_.

SFNET is an expanding commercial service; I want to use SFNET as an
example a springboard for much wider deployment of public access to
whistleblowing.

Eric