Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!encore.UUCP!loverso From: loverso@encore.UUCP (John LoVerso) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: UREP on SUN Message-ID: <8801202233.AA11579@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 20 Jan 88 18:23:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: John LoVerso Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 In article <8801140130.AA21999@jade.berkeley.edu> leonid%taurus.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu writes: > Get the original UREP package from PSU...which is $800 for an educational site $800 for UREP? Thats unbelievable! I cannot imagine what change in UREP made it so valuable that the "distribution" fee was increased by 4 times! For comparision, for $1000 you can get all of 4.3BSD, distributed fresh from Berkeley and you get much more value for your money! Anyway, I ran a UREP-connected bitnet site (sunybcs.bitnet) for a few years, and had no end to the pains that UREP caused (between all the bugs and security holes). I would not put UREP up on any machine where I didn't want global access to "root". By "global", I *do* mean bitnet-wide access. If you're going to spend on a leased-line 9600 baud link (in the USA), you'd probably be better off running IP over it (SLIP, anyone?) and connecting into NSFNET. John Robert LoVerso, Encore Computer Corp encore!loverso, loverso@multimax.arpa [The views expressed above are my own, and no reflection of those of Encore]