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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.144907.15564@acheron.uucp>
Date: 3 Nov 90 14:49:07 GMT
References: <2650@cirrusl.UUCP>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <2650@cirrusl.UUCP>, by dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi):
- While we're on the subject, the whole idea of requiring some sort of
- leased line for Internet access is all wrong.  In this age of
- Trailblazers, low-volume access to a network shouldn't need to cost
- more than $30/hour after hours plus $1.50 per month for maintaining the
- account.

PSInet charges $250/month, flat fee using local phone numbers.  There are
no additional charges for packet or connect time.  If you think that you
will use internet access more than eight hours at your $30/hr, then you
have access right now.  Call 1.800.82PSI82 (blech!) to get more info.  
They support PPP (RFC 1171 asynch), SLIP (RFC 1055) and X.25/IP.

I just got the add yesterday ...
-- 
               | "Pain, n.  An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have
Ed Clarke      |  a physical basis in something that is being done to the
acheron!clarke |  body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune
               |  of another." - Ambrose Bierce