Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!elg
From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Message-ID: <6789@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 15 Jan 89 02:03:39 GMT
References: <6230@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <6230@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) says:
> Telebit Trailblazers are nice, but
> there needs to be one at both ends to get the benefits.
> What fraction of the services that PCP customers dial, have or would
> get sufficient trailblazers to make that suggestion realistic?
> -----------------------------------------------

There's a large number of USENET sites currently using PC Pursuit,
most of them out there in the margins (the "boondocks", so to speak).
All the major USENET feeds seem to use Trailblazers. You can expect
the percentage to go up rapidly as the marginal sites either upgrade
or get off the net. 

As for me -- I currently get my netnews via PC Pursuit. This is my
major use of PC Pursuit -- otherwise I'd use it less than 30
hours/month. A friend who is in the process of upgrading his system to
a 68020 and Unix Sys V is willing to start a "USENET pool", whereby
everybody interested locally can pool their money to get the
newsgroups they want (note that the "pool" will ripple out further in
the local area, since most of us have PCs capable of acting as leaf
sites, such as my Amiga). In the event this happens, it looks like
such access will be MUCH cheaper than using the New Improved PC
Pursuit.

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