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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.132023.13838@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 13:20:23 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Didn't I just say that was a more substantial sum than the $75 per month UUPSI
>charges? But more to the point, in very many places the call to a UUPSI POP is
>free or charged on a per-call basis, but the call to a site willing to feed you
>is long distance. For us (Houston is such an example) UUPSI is a dead win.

Likewise with other cities - $75 sure beats long distance - but for those
sites who most pay LD on top of any connection charges UUPSI might not be
such a good deal.

Here at nstar.rn.com we feed around 18 sites - and our news runs on
the average 12 hours old.  We do have room for 1 or 2 additional PEP
feeds (base price $75/year) and our throughput exceeds uunet (so we've
been told by several folks connected to uunet).

-- 
   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}