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From: sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.170354.23751@utoday.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 17:03:54 GMT
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In article <1CE00001.abkx86@tbomb.ice.com> time@ice.com writes:
>
>Second, I think PSI has been playing the press game a little rough.
>Their recent announcement concerning Telebit modems is yet another
>example. The fact is the announcement came across more as "We are
>abandoning Telebits" than as "We are embracing V.32". Now this new
>announcement comes along and it sounds like PSI is cutting off a service
>already negotiated and paid for. NOT TRUE. But, again PSI did not
>put themselves in the shoes of USENET readers and make it very clear
>that the "full service" was still there, just that the "bargain service"
>was not intended for forwarding and that the *existing* rule would
>be "encouraged".
>

This would be logical if true, but it's not. Nowhere in any of the
literature we reviewed or statements made by PSI officials at the time
we signed up, was any sort of limitation on our feed or connectivity
discussed. When we asked specifically how they could charge so little,
they simply said it was all because of their buying everything in
bulk, etc. We said, well, we do this with UUNET, and they said, ``We
can do exactly the same thing for $75 per month.''

Despite what they say now, there we were given nothing that would lead
us to believe this was a leaf service, or that this was anything other
than their main service. In fact, I believe this higher-priced service
only came out as a result of their wanting to limit current customers'
use. IE., well if you want what you paid for, you're going to have to
pay more.


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