Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 07:33:05 -0700 (PDT) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: lithium@cia-g.com (Stephen Fisher) Cc: linuxisp@lightning.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satellite news feed? Message-ID: <m0uHtFh-0008v8C@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960509222105.5051T-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> from "Stephen Fisher" at May 9, 96 10:24:55 pm
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> I was wondering if anyone has experience with PageSat I had pagesat for a while a year or two ago (until a little tree grew into a bigger tree and blocked the only good spot for the dish; as I got a T1 about then, I just switched to my ISP's news server). The software was marginal, but came in source and was relatively easy to hack. Do *not* get email by PageSat however, as *everyone* gets it. At the time at least, the software did not distinguish email, and it all ended up in "junk", until I hacked it to ignore the mail. I seem to recall that there were complaints about it being a day or two behind other news sites, but I also saw something recently that said they'd improved their connectivity. Otherwise, I think it's a great way to get news; if it weren't for the tree, I'd leave it turned on as a backup feed to the ISP feed. -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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