Xref: utzoo news.admin:12650 news.misc:6232 comp.mail.uucp:6048 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!sugar!taronga!peter From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 14:49:06 GMT References: <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> <1991Mar5.141606.1797@uu.psi.com> <1991Mar10.023408.3693@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 32 In article <1991Mar10.023408.3693@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: > There are others who don't charge at all, under any number of circumstances. > All one has to do is ask around. In general if you're able and willing to > help out, you don't end up paying anyone other than Ma Bell. This might well be a more substantial sum than the $75 per month UUPSI charges. > If you want "up to the second Usenet" then you might need something more > direct, and have to pay for it. In that case perhaps you're a potential > customer. I don't know where you are, but in a lot of places the traditional methods give you at best 2-day-old Usenet. Sometimes older than that. > Now, if PSI (or anyone else) can demonstrate that they can get the mail > and news to me cheaper, easier and more reliably than I can with the > current model of operation (cooperative interconnection) AND has a > cooperative attitude rather than a combative one I would buy their > service. That's only good common sense. For folks in less well connected parts of the U.S., they can. We're talking $75 versus hundreds of dollars. As an individual with a desire to feed others, I have no problem with it. I can feed a full UUPSI stream in, which speeds up half the loop. Replies will take longer through the traditional late-night long-distance calls, but since the volume is now MUCH lower this becomes affordable too. -- (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com) `-_-' 'U`