Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: uunet access from Canada Message-ID: <986@van-bc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 23:33:38 EDT Article-I.D.: van-bc.986 Posted: Fri Jul 10 23:33:38 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 19:31:42 EDT References: <954@van-bc.UUCP> <824@looking.UUCP> <1479@ncc.UUCP> <968@van-bc.UUCP> <1482@ncc.UUCP> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Distribution: can Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC. Lines: 36 In article <1482@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >> >> [...] In theory, the hardware and X.25 software can >> >> be had from the US UUNET site. SMOP, perhaps. >> >> >Whatever happened to "buy Canadian" :-) >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> What products did you have in mind. > >I guess what I meant was, why buy from "the US UUNET" site when >there are lots of starving Canadian vendors (read: me) who would >be MORE than willing to sell you a system and X.25 :-) > >--lyndon And what I really meant, was what services do you have in mind. I want to buy a UUNET type service. Read cheap overnight access to news and mail and ftp'able (well actually uucp'able) software, on an international basis. I don't particularly want to buy or build another computer system. So when you can offer me a UUNET service at UUNET prices then I'll buy Canadian, until then I'm going to continue to get the prices down. This is not to say I won't be extremely interested in helping to get a home grown effort started, but I think the first step might be just to use the existing service. Of course I do insist that because UUNET is located on the East side of the Continent, it only makes sense to locate CANNET on the West Side. I hereby volunteer Vancouver :-) Maybe I can get a Federal Subsidy :-) -- {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!Stuart.Lynne Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532