From: "Dave Emery" <die@pig.die.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:18:46 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Subject: Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!
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> 
> 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