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Subject: Re: uunet access from Canada
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Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 15:30:23 EDT
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In article <959@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> 
> This actually happened to us the west coast in February. Alberta lost their
> ihpn4 link. Feed went from a pretty consistent 1MB of compressed feed per
> day to a handful of articles filtering in from back east. Pretty boring 3
> weeks!

Which is rather strange given that ubc-vision is a backbone site.
When the ihnp4 link went down, a few of us went into "crisis mode"
to figure out an alternative. Thus was born the link between alberta
and mnetor (which is now working in both directions). Of the
alternatives, the best all involved redundent X.25 links between
major sites, with leaf sites coming in via dialup to this "mini-
backbone."

> I simply want to get the lowest cost access to the news, and mail.

The X.25 scenario turned out to be much cheaper than LD.

> >WHAT is to stop us from setting up a Canadian uunet?
> Nothing. I just don't think that it's a) neccessary or b) cost effective.

What concerns me the most is that uunet will become another ihnp4 - everybody
comes to count on them for mail/news, then they go down for a week...

Uunet is a service that is long overdue. I would like to see it made
more robust by having more than one "uunet" in the world. Don't forget
800 and 900 toll free and toll reduced calling are viable alternatives
to X.25 as well.