wanted: 'beacon' hosts ?

Wed Oct 3 07:56:06 UTC 2001

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:36:31PM +0100,
 Simon Lockhart <simonl at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote 
 a message of 38 lines which said:

> I'm fairly sure there's commercial services which offer this, but it 
> wouldn't be too difficult to build a freeware solution.

Witbe, for instance (http://www.witbe.net/) but an exchange point (a
marketplace of beacon hosts, on the Web) would be a grassroot and free
alternative.