From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 10 07:33:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA22244 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 07:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA22233 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 07:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0uHtFh-0008v8C; Fri, 10 May 96 07:33 PDT Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: Satellite news feed? To: lithium@cia-g.com (Stephen Fisher) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 07:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linuxisp@lightning.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Fisher" at May 9, 96 10:24:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.