abuse of terminology was Re: [geeks] Booze and Religion and DIETS

[Kris Kirby]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   I was putting a SkyCache dish antenna up in my backyard in Maryland
> about four years ago, and a neighbor walked by and said "hey, you got
> a satellite!"  I responded with "no, General Electric has the
> satellite, I just catch the RF with this antenna."  He walked away
> very confused, and probably thought I was nuts.

IIRC, Hughes owns the VSAT birds.

Is SkyCache still in business?

Heh. I almost want to start an ISP so I can get an Akamai cluster and the
USENET feed that goes with it.

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