Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!MX.LCS.MIT.EDU!KFL From: KFL@MX.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Re: PC Pursuit Message-ID: <8612110637.AA22329@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 01:01:43 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612110637.AA22329 Posted: Sat Nov 29 01:01:43 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 10:06:55 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu From: jbs@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Because PC Persuit isn't a flat fee service. The $35/month is for unlimited off peak time. Is this a misprint, or has it gone up? It ought to go down, since service is getting worse. From DC to Boston is now almost always busy, and I had to write a program to keep trying once every two seconds and beep me when it gets through, which often takes a half hour or more. ...Keith [Have you noticed that after waiting 1/2 hour for a line you get a noisy outdial modem? 3 nights out of 5 I spend another half hour reporting the condition, only to resume waiting through the "busy" cycle again! I have serious doubts that Telenet's repair technicians do an adequate job testing their equipment. -Elmo]