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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mail-Server
- Message-ID: <928254992DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 12:16:55 EST
- References: <scs.721582489@hela.iti.org> <1dumvpINNdmq@nigel.msen.com> <58-PCNews-124beta@pos.apana.org.au>
- Reply-To: marc@tanda.isis.org
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- Organization: Thibault & Friends
- Lines: 51
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- In article <58-PCNews-124beta@pos.apana.org.au>
- (Mark Purcell) writes:
-
- > There is one option which I have found and adopted, that is the
- > Australian Public Access Network Association (APANA) which uses the MX
- > *.apana.org.au. This is a non profit organisation which is trying to
- > support Public access in Australia. APANA has set up a uucp network across
-
- It sounds like you folks need to stimulate the "for profit"
- network business that is turning NA into an on-line society.
-
- Many thousands of us pay about $100/year (the cost of two good
- technical reference books) for internet/uucp access via
- commercial hosts set up for that purpose. Most of these are in
- someone's basement or den.
-
- In Ottawa (pop. 400,000) there are at least two 'pure' uucp
- services and a number of BBS' that include internet mail and
- usenet news along with the dozen or so BBS networks. The small
- fee ensures that each of these services has hundreds of users;
- more than enough to pay for the equipment and lines.
-
- > the country linking major cities via the one MX, with member sites paying for
- > the long distance calls from their back pocket. But AARNET aren't really happy
- > with this, using one MX to service groups of machines which may be
- > in other states, and want to hit APANA with $1000/state for usage.
-
- AARNET needs a few competitors who're not so greedy. I'd lobby
- your indigenous BBS community to take a shot at it.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Marc
-
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