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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: UUCP access
Keywords: UUCP, e-mail, news
Message-ID: <1019@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:59:35 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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Portal is selling SERVICE.  Don't get the impression that they're
the only people in this business (they're not), or that there is
anyone you have to pay money to other than your local telephone
company and interexchange carrier to participate in UUCP.

There is NO charge for "joining UUCP," for registering in the
UUCP maps, or for registering a domain name.  If you have the
hardware (e.g. Telebit modem) and the software (supplied with
most UNIX systems and available for many others) and you know
what you are doing, the ONLY cost to you is the cost of your time
and the cost of pushing bits around.  Portal is catering to
people who don't have and don't care to develop local expertise.

Many "home computers" participate in the International UUCP
Network without this kind of "help"--any commercial organization
that isn't willing to put in at least as much effort (even if
it means hiring a consultant for a few hours), deserves to be
ripped off.  Anyone who tells you that it's difficult to get a
[working] UUCP connection is LYING, particularly in the San
Francisco Bay Area.

					-=EPS=-