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

[James Sharp]

> 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?

I hope so.  I'm still getting a paycheck from them.

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

No Akamai feeds any more, though.  Mostly just web caching & the bandwidth
sucking news stream.