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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.124917.1760@shaman.com>
Sender: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Organization: Shaman Consulting
References: <1991Jun11.053825.13936@rfengr.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 12:49:17 GMT

In article <1991Jun11.053825.13936@rfengr.com> rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)  
> I don't see much advantage (other than redundancy) to
> decentralizing.  For instance, calls out of state are
> generally cheaper than long distance calls in-state, and it
> doesn't matter which of the lower 48 you're calling; with
> Reach-Out America, it's $6.30 an hour, no matter what.  
> 
> If they were to put a node on the other side of San Diego
> from me, it would still be cheaper to call VA.
> 
> --
> Rick Farris  RF Engineering POB M Del Mar, CA 92014  voice (619) 259-6793
> rfarris@rfengr.com     ...!ucsd!serene!rfarris      serenity bbs 259-7757


What happens if it was in area code 619? Then, I think you would see
the advantage. :-)  

I use ROA too, so it doesn't make much difference. Althought if I moved
to a metropolitan area, it would be nice. We're switching the bulk of
our traffic to PSI, which *does* have a POP in Ithaca.

I hear PSI has a centralized news and e-mail server, even though their
distribution system (POPs) are decentralized. Sigh... Which means if
uu.psi.com fails.... Which is also why I requested that my MX forwarding
records look like:

	200 uu.psi.com
	300 relay1.uu.net
	300 relay2.uu.net

Which means that if PSI goes down, then my mail *should* go through
UUNET (I'm retaining subscriptions on both systems). This seems the
best for right now. The problem is if PSI goes only half down, like
UUNET does, and limps for a long time. E-mail will still go to them,
but may not make it to me.

   - Jiro Nakamura
     jiro@shaman.com
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