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From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: what's this for?
Message-ID: <785@cci632.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 17:59:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 17:59:37 1986
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Summary: Usenet by sattellite.

In article <1076@k.cs.cmu.edu> jwa@k.cs.cmu.edu (James Anderson) writes:
>Could someone tell em what the purpose of this newsgroup is, other
>than the interesting name?
>							Jim

Simply put, stargat is a project, intended to make distribution
of volume news, such as the groups you are reading now, less
expensive by distributing it via sattellite/cable TV rather than using
the "backbone" and long distance telephone lines.

There are usually monthly updates posted by the stargate committee
(I forgot who's on it).

Appearantly, they had made arrangements with carriers, sattellite
companies, and had come up with an encryption standard.

It's been a few months since anything came out on it.  At last
report there were some concerns over censorship issues.

I don't know what the latest news is.

Rex B.