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To: Moe B. Loney who wrote (7003)	8/11/1998 3:19:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

With an evening coat and a white tie, anyone, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized. Oscar Wilde I am buying a white tie immediately. This civilization angle might have something to it. :) While my plans to build a better drive might be droll they are Knuthing compared to my ultra store planetoid systemata. One beams bits in a lightspeed stream at a distant asteroid and records their reflection when they return. This constitutes the refresh rate of the interplanetary ram drive. It take 531 seconds to flash the data to the belt and it stores 1062 gigabytes of data in the round trip. Average access time is 531 seconds but stripping speed is 1 gigabyte per second. There are myriad asteroids so many such drives could be set up. To mimic this drive you could simply bounce streams of data at random throughout mail addressed to your self finagling with the software to maximize bounces or sending to non existent addresses or servers out of order. This is called the slow aspect wandering 5 day mail drive. Another strategy is to make up a story that you are a poor student in grade 6 with a science fair project and would the nice ISP care to store 10 megabytes of backed up drive space for you? This is called the sympathy drive. It is bound to have at least 1000 takers and there is 10 gigabytes of very secure data for nothing. EC<:-}