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"Point disks" minimize the long distance costs and level of telecommunications skills required to participate. The potential is for a citizen to receive a disk in the mail preset for one or more online conferences, and to insert the disk in their computer and hit a few keys to initiate an autopoll routine. The disk then automatically makes a long distance call, compresses all messages and files from one or more conferences, downloads the data to the students PC, decompresses the data, and presents the messages in an easy-to-use message editor. The student then reads and writes, offline and repeats the process when finished writing.
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