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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How much does it cost/what else is involved to connect to the USENET?
Message-ID: <563@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 90 01:39:22 GMT
References: <22352@usc.edu>
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In article <22352@usc.edu>, kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes:
 
> Anyway, I need to know some of procedural aspects to this... what does it
> really take.  I would assume that just about every center of MLK's kind
> would either have computer facilities already ... or be considering buying
> them **real** real soon.
 
> dennis
> kriz@skat.usc.edu

It takes the same thing everyone else has to have.... a system that'll 
run news, someone computer-literate to maintain the system, a phone 
line with modem (TrailBlazer recommended) or a direct high-speed link,
someone to connect to (I think they're in Atlanta, which should have 
at least a dozen significant nodes), and a copy of the usenet users'
manual.

The system, staff, and line they'll have to provide themselves. Getting
a link in Atlanta should require three or four phone calls. The users'
manual can be bought, or printed from the distribution files for news.

In short, it's easy.

-- 
    Gary Heston     { uunet!sci34hub!gary  }    System Mismanager
   SCI Technology, Inc.  OEM Products Department  (i.e., computers)
      Hestons' First Law: I qualify virtually everything I say.