[63272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Oct 2 15:30:15 2003
From: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:26:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310021455370.14627-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a
> > critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested
> parties
> > should send me an email off list please.
>
> If a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it, I imagine
> Cidera would still be in business.
>
When I last looked into them in depth, which was a while ago (2001), they seemed
very top heavy, set up to distribute streaming media over satellite for
a market and price point that never materialized.
> Is USENET still a cost-effective way to distribute porn and pirated
> software?
>
>
I have no clue. I just know that there is possibility to replace it.
Anyone have any idea how many ISP's got the usenet feed ?
Marshall
