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Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!
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
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