Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!

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@pacifier.com

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@pacifier.com
>

> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> (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.)
> 
	There is another small company (used to be called Pagesat and
now called NCIT) that provides a 115.2 kb compressed (gzip) forward
error corrected feed of the entire USENET in near real time over a Ku band
satellite - not big ugly 8-10 foot dish C band, but a 1 meter VSAT style
fixed offset fed Ku dish (bigger than DSS - more the size of Primestar).
(Satellite is K2 and soon will be GE-1).

	Pagesat/NCIT markets this service primarily to medium and small
size ISPs, but it is available to individuals willing to pay $400/yr
for the service and about $600-$1000 for the hardware.


						Dave Emery
						die@die.com