Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!mailrus!sharkey!atanasoff!jwright From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase" Message-ID: <579@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Date: 2 Jan 89 14:02:43 GMT References: <261@lakesys.UUCP> <7342@chinet.chi.il.us> <574@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <2575@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) Distribution: na Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA Lines: 25 In article <2575@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >An hour of use every day would make you a fairly high-use BBS user. Yes, if you only have local BBS's to call. No, if you are a (former?) PCPursuit user. >Some started feeding OTHER PEOPLE's data over it, >as a service. Some even ran USENET feeds, effectively feeding data for >me and tens of thousands of others. Some set up chat networks that stayed >signed on all the time! > >This is personal use folks? Not a chance. It's all the people who abused >the spirit of PC-Pursuit that have caused it to change. If you are looking >for somebody to yell at, yell at them. If you logged into the Net Exchange, you would know that in the statement of policy (and the inevitable clarifications which followed) Telenet made it clear that FidoNet and Usenet feeds are valid uses of PCPursuit. What was prohibited was the DiversiDial systems. These are probably the scum who wrecked it for us all, if you must point a finger at some group of the user community. Another possibility is the decision was completely internal to Telenet. [Yes, I realize you're in Canada and have no way of knowing what is posted on the US-only service. This is just FYI.]