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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: to PEP or not to PEP?
Message-ID: <1357@intercon.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 16:10:21 GMT
References: <1989Aug10.175458.20369@utzoo.uucp>
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Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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In article <1989Aug10.175458.20369@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry
Spencer) writes:
> I would suggest that unless there are factors I'm not aware of, it is in
> everyone's best interests, including yours, if you do *not* fall back to
> slow speeds when you can't get through to utzoo at high speed.  Trying
> the high-speed call more frequently works much better.

The same thing is true for uunet (from whom we get our news & mail feed).
For some time now I've had our machine only accept PEP mode when talking
to uunet, and it works very well.

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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