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From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Subject: AT&T Canada to take a role in Usenet
Date: Tue, 12-Apr-88 16:00:00 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Apr12.160002.24906@lsuc.uucp>
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto

AT&T Canada, through its site "attcan", will be taking on
a significant role in bringing Usenet to Toronto (and possibly
other parts of Canada).  They have UUCP running and are in the
process of getting news to work.  When all their equipment is
installed they will have 8 dialin modems, 8 dialout modems
(all at 2400) and two Trailblazers, and the budget for several
hours a day of calls to uunet for a newsfeed.  (So far they
have one Trailblazer running; the rest of the equipment will
be in by the end of May.  The uunet test feed will be starting
in the next few days.)

Michael East (lsuc!attcan!mbeast) has been able to convince
AT&T Canada management that Usenet is important enough that
support of it should be a major corporate policy, and this is
being done.  They will also have links to AT&T in the U.S.
(though I have recommended they get the news from uunet to
have it as current as possible).

Once everything is running smoothly, attcan will replace
mnetor as the "fast feed" from uunet.  We're also making
plans to distribute the news around Toronto by Trailblazer
as fast as possible from the central sites (e.g., from attcan
to utzoo and geac).

Hats off to AT&T Canada for their welcome contribution to the net.
And a thank-you to Motorola (mnetor) for the gigabytes shipped
over the past couple of years.

David Sherman
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