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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
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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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 :-)





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