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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proceedures, voting..
Message-ID: <1684@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 13:08:41 EST
Article-I.D.: seismo.1684
Posted: Tue Mar 18 13:08:41 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 05:19:24 EST
References: <5075@alice.uUCp> <3326@sun.uucp> <1195@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <87@gilbbs.UUCP>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: PC Pursuit IS in use on seismo

Sorry, but it IS available to businesses. It is currently saving me
about $700 per month on my phone bill.

I KNOW GTE is aware that we are a business, since I crashed their DC area
system when they were first bringing it up (The phone conversation was
funny. What kind of PC are you using? Vax-11/780. Long pause. What are
you doing with it? Transferring about 4 megabytes/night of mail. Another
pause.)

Anyway, we ended up talking for about an hour. It seems that seismo
is their biggest user by a large amount. They claim that
their system should be able to handle the traffic and that they
did not care that we were "commercial".

He did say that they might go to a different charging scale for businesses.

Hobbyists pay $25/month usage independant.

Businesses pat $1/hour with a $25/month minimum.

It's a tremendous bargain either way.

If you are in one of their 12 cities local calling area (Atlanta, Boston, 
Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, LA, New York, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, or Washington DC) you can call all of the following uucp
Sites (This is the list seismo calls regularly, there are lots more):

drillsys, dual, gatech, hao, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, mit-erl, presby, rlgvax,
scgvaxd, seismo, smu, sun, turtlevax, umcp-cs, usenix, vortex

They claim to be adding San Diego, Portland  and Seattle "soon". They are
considering adding the nothern New Jersey area, which would save me another
$500/month.

---rick