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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: The politics of groups (of people)
Message-ID: <5991@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:55:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:55:34 1985
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> ... a lot of
> people sound like the backbone sites must be 1200B PDP11/34's with
> RL02's and any solution has to satisfy that configuration.

At least one backbone site (utzoo) *is* a PDP11/44 with Fujitsu Eagles.

> How about
> CD's? uWave links?  T1? 9600B async modems w/ error correction?  build
> 'modems' with 680x0's in them...

If you pay for it, we'll use it.  But it took a damn long time just getting
this place equipped with 1200-baud modems.  I can just hear the reactions
if I ask to spend N thousand dollars (even for not-too-large N) on something
dedicated solely to netnews.  Remember that news generally gets a free ride
on equipment bought for other things -- the budget for news itself is ZERO
at many places.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry