Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!sask!reid 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 Article-I.D.: sask.787 Posted: Sun Jul 5 02:40:15 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 07:46:18 EDT References: <954@van-bc.UUCP> <1477@ncc.UUCP> <959@van-bc.UUCP> <1480@ncc.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: The Church of the Least Fixed Point Lines: 37 Xref: utgpu can.general:635 news.misc:570 news.admin:534 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?