Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <268BDBC5.4F0A@intercon.com> Date: 29 Jun 90 22:52:53 GMT References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> <3008.268b1e9a@mccall.com> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 17 In article <3008.268b1e9a@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com writes: > Many people are only able to run uucp and get news precisely because it is > free, in the sense that there is a local site willing to feed them, so > there are no phone bills. Not necessarily. 'intercon.com', for example, is a local call away from uunet, but we've switched to only polling them hourly between 6AM & 8PM in order to reduce the phone bill. Our modem is on a business line, which gets charged in "message units"... That being said, it's still a lot cheaper than our occasional UUCP to osu-cis :-). -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation --