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From: reid@sask.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general,news.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: uunet access from Canada
Message-ID: <787@sask.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 02:40:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  5 02:40:15 1987
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Summary: Looking for info on costs/benefits of using Datapac

In article <1480@ncc.UUCP>, lyndon@ncc.UUCP writes:
> In article <959@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:

> > I simply want to get the lowest cost access to the news, and mail.

> The X.25 scenario turned out to be much cheaper than LD.

Do you have any hard data, or can you point me to anyone who might have hard
data?  We currently get all our news over a 300 baud uncompressed leased
line to alberta, and rely on ihnp4 (icky poo) for our main mail feed.

We do have a datapac link on campus, but the hardware here is such that
you can't bill to our number, because there's no way to tell who's
connecting from our end.

I'm in the process of setting up a proposal to present to our
Facilities Committee to:

(a) start using our existing datapac link for mail contacts, if we can
find forwarders willing to pay for the call (ihnp4 and utcsri already
call us at their own expense, over LD telephone),

(b) try to get our newsfeed over onto datapac (if it's cheaper than the
300baud leased line), and

(c) get a UUNET connection.

(b) and (c) may require changing our datapac connection so that calls can be
billed from our end, if paying someone else to receive collect calls is
either more expensive or administratively unfeasible.

Any data which you, or anyone you know of, can send
me will be much appreciated.
-- 
 - irving -   (reid@sask.uucp or {alberta, ihnp4, utcsri}!sask!reid)

Whose idea was this, anyway?