Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:799 news.misc:1618 comp.mail.uucp:1426 comp.unix.questions:8050 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!gethen!isaac From: isaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Is a NEED for more COMMERCIAL usenet feed providers? Summary: Careful, like commercial Message-ID: <991@gethen.UUCP> Date: 4 Jul 88 06:46:54 GMT References: <1155@ndmath.UUCP> <317@ditka.UUCP> <11403@steinmetz.ge.com> Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland Lines: 16 In article <11403@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > For low budget sites, uunet can be reached by PC Pursuit... A good suggestion, which I was thinking of employing myself, but one to be used with caution. You'll note that Telenet is *very* sticky about PC Pursuit not being used for commerical purposes. Doubtless this rule is widely broken, but I think they'd notice and come down on someone operating a news site. If I ever start a news site using PCP, I intend to be very careful that my net activities are non-commercial. ("Just a public discussion system for myself and a few of my associaltes.") If I'm doing anything resembling business, none of it (mail, file transfers) would go over the net. I'd use MCI mail, which is more reliable anyway. After all, they might try to stick me for *all* the network time I had used, and with a UUCP link being up 2 or 3 hours every night, that would be a lot of money!