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- From: mdm@mondy.uucp (Michael Mondy)
- Newsgroups: houston.general
- Subject: Re: News Feed
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.051718.10826@mondy.uucp>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:17:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.170358.18586@sun44.synercom.hounix.org> <1992Nov12.015106.18760@lobster.hou.tx.us> <1992Nov14.142257.16896@uhura1.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov14.142257.16896@uhura1.uucp> bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >
- >Indeed, uhura1 currently has only one downstream site. We still have
- >modem time available for a couple of largish-volume feeds or several
- >small-volume feeds.
- >
- >The disadvantages of getting your feed from uhura1 are:
- >
- > - The USENET biz is on an as-I-have-spare-system-administration-
- > time-to-do-it basis, which means I can't always respond to
- > problems as quickly as I'd like to. Fixing computer problems
- > at work takes priority over fixing any USENET problems that
- > may arise. (And if I'm swamped at work, I can be _slow_ in
- > fixing problems, as long as the basics are working -- just ask
- > Michael Mondy...)
- >
- > - We have a single telephone line, and a single modem, available
- > for USENET feeds. The modem is a TrailBlazer Plus, configured
- > to connect only at high speed, so you have to connect using PEP.
- >
- > - I only have provisional permission to dedicate this line to
- > USENET/e-mail feeds. The management could decide to pull the
- > plug, though this doesn't seem likely to happen in the near
- > future. I suppose this may be normal for commercial sites
- > providing feeds, but want to give fair warning...
- >
-
- I also have plenty of modem time and can feed someone news. Brian's
- caveats repeated above as I receive from him.
-
- I have a Telebit WorldBlazer, so I can do PEP, V.32, and V.32bis.
-
- What I have available is a full feed, except lacking:
- ! alt.binaries, ! comp.binaries, !soc, !talk, !fido
-
-
- Mike
-