Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!cvedc!nosun!techbook!jamesd From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <1990Jul5.005618.17046@techbook.com> Date: 5 Jul 90 00:56:18 GMT References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> <3008.268b1e9a@mccall.com> Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 23 In article <3008.268b1e9a@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes: [...] >Since most internet sites that are willing to be forwarders insist on a >direct connection, many sites are left out in the cold. There either is a >willing internet site local to you or there isn't. If there isn't, and you >can't spend the LD, you're stuck. Ah, c'mon. You call once a night long-distance to pick up your mail and drop off anything that you want to go out. If there's nothing there, you get nicked for a one-minute phone call. Assuming that the worst case is $.20 a minute for that call, and there are 30 days in a month, you're looking at $6 a month. Figure that there will be mail coming or going the other times, and you're probably up to $10 a month. That's the worst case, assuming that you can't find anyone else in your neck of the woods to group together in a park and that absolutely none of your local Internet folk are friendly. That sounds pretty reasonable to me. -- jamesd@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}!techbook!jamesd Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 Technical books mailing list --- mail "techbook!tbj-request" "Sitting on the console all day, watching the news scroll away ..."