Re: USENET on a tape, and future privacy

[markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)]

> I was just thinking.  My roommate mentioned that he saw an ad for 
> a service available in europe.  They send you an 8mm tape evey week
> that has all the USENET traffic on it.  I was thinking that a large 
There is also a company in Vancouver B.C. that will sell you a 
subscription to USENET on CDROM. Each CD contains about a week of 
traffic (the cost is something like US$20 per CD). They CDs don't 
include traffic from certain newsgroups (mostly the sex related 
ones. I guess they don't want to get busted for distributing
obscene material). 

I can dig up contact information, if anyone is interested. I spoke
with one of their representatives a while back, and they apparently
have sold subscriptions to various government agencies in the U.S.
and Canada.

Mark

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