Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.society.development Subject: Re: Summary: Who is on the net? Message-ID: <1991May29.225305.10706@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 29 May 91 22:53:05 GMT References: <1991May27.141355.978@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1991May28.183943.16259@convex.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 18 swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes: > Hey, is it really necessary to have a local > telephone exchange before you can hook up > internationally? Couldn't a small satellite dish > with the appropriate equipment do the job? I think it's being done; I ran across a complaint from a New Zealander that ruffians from the US were failing to find local ftp sites, and instead running up his NZ satellite charges by doing ftp across the big puddle. From the description, this was a site link rather than a national link, but I may have misunderstood that part. Kent, the man from xanth.