Xref: utzoo news.admin:12670 news.misc:6237 comp.mail.uucp:6056 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!umich!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: <1991Mar11.140209.10547@nstar.rn.com> Date: 11 Mar 91 14:02:09 GMT References: <1991Mar10.211157.871@nstar.rn.com> Organization: NSTAR BBS - 8 lines - 1350 conferences - 4200 megabytes Lines: 23 peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >> peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> >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... >OK, and where are you? (remember, the "traditional methods" tend to include >avoiding long-distance phone calls). We are in Notre Dame, IN and rarely make long distance telephone calls -- (We do feed a couple of sites via 800 numbers - does that qualify as long distance?) The majority of our news from major sites is less than 12 hours old (it is not uncommon for news to be 6 hours old in many 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}