Xref: utzoo news.admin:12659 news.misc:6235 comp.mail.uucp:6053 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!math.lsa.umich.edu!sharkey!nstar!larry From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI Message-ID: <1991Mar10.211157.871@nstar.rn.com> Date: 10 Mar 91 21:11:57 GMT References: <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> <1991Mar5.141606.1797@uu.psi.com> <1991Mar10.023408.3693@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: NSTAR BBS - 8 lines - 1350 conferences - 4200 megabytes Lines: 19 peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> 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. Our connections here are running less than 12 hours old (news from all major sites makes it into nstar within a couple of hours) which isn't instant - but not bad.. We will feed sites backbone feeds for $75 per year via Telebit Trailblazer and offer excellent throughput in most cases. -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis) regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}