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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI
Message-ID: <1991Mar06.232416.769@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 23:24:16 GMT
References: <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com>
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton) writes:
>I just got a letter from PSI that is kind of disturbing. 
>
>The thrust of this letter is that they are changing terms of user
>contracts to say that since we're paying so little for a News/Mail
>feed, we can't turn around and feed anyone else.
>
>I'm not sure how they plan to enforce this, but the new terms state
>that mail for ``another organization'' can not be sent nor received
>through PSI, and that if you send your UUPSI news feed to another
>site, no posts from that site can come back through PSI.
>
>I really question their decision on this. Especially when I constantly
>see PSI folk posting, ``We *are* the net'' all over the place.
>Well, I never knew the net had an attitude.
>
>Has anyone else out there gotten this letter?

I haven't received the letter yet, but I've been expecting it. Nothing I read
in the literature or the contract for the $75.00/month service implied this
limitation.

They seem to be defining "another organization" to be any other machine which
hass uucp connections to mine, thereby immediately making the domain which they
registered for me be a single site.

You going to revise your last article?

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341