G'day John,

Replying to a message of John Tserkezis to Paul Edwards on 10/04/97:

 JT>  BTW, how much is your UUCP link costing you, and for the domain name? 
 JT> I was looking a while back (couple of years ago actually) and I was
 JT> looking at $300+ for setup and at least $300/pa without taking volume
 JT> charges into account.  And that was the cheapest.  One of the most
 JT> expensive said $1000+/pa, at that stage I didn't listen to any more. 
 JT> I didn't want mail that bad.

I get my UUCP feed through Dialix at 1c a minute logon time at 14.4k. If
you want 28.8k it's 2c a minute. This is for newsgroups. If you
send/receive mail it's also 1c per 1000 bytes of content (that's why I use
matra as my email address).

My domain name is grntrs.dialix.oz.au. Ummm, you gotta be in credit and the
UUCP feed costs $10 to setup.

Last year cost me about $100 all up (not counting phone calls) to get the
the following newsgroups (not many I know).

WGLIST
AUS.COMPUTERS.OS2 
AUS.GAMES 
COMP.BINARIES.OS2 
DIALIX.HINTS 
DIALIX.CONTROL 
DIALIX.TEST 
DIALIX.MISC 
DIALIX.ANNOUNCE 
DIALIX.NEWSGROUPS 
DIALIX.ENVIRONMENT 
DIALIX.FORSALE 
DIALIX.MUD 
DIALIX.TCPIP 
COMP.OS.OS2.APPS 
COMP.OS.OS2.ANNOUNCE 
COMP.OS.OS2.BUGS 
COMP.OS.OS2.BETA 
COMP.OS.OS2.GAMES 
COMP.OS.OS2.MODERATED 
COMP.OS.OS2.SETUP 
COMP.OS.OS2.SETUP.MISC 
COMP.OS.OS2.SETUP.STORAGE 
COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.TOOLS 
COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.MISC 
COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER 
COMP.OS.OS2.UTILITIES 
COMP.SYS.IBM.PC.GAMES.STRATEGIC 
GNU.EMACS 
GNU.EMACS.ANNOUNCE 
GNU.EMACS.BUG 
GNU.EMACS.HELP 
GNU.EMACS.GNUS 
NEWS.ANNOUNCE.NEWSGROUPS 
NEWS.ANSWERS 
COMP.OS.OS2.NETWORKING.TCP-IP 
COMP.MAIL.UUCP 
DIALIX.WWW 
DIALIX.IRC 
DIALIX.GERMAN 
DIALIX.FLAME 

I gate the above to my local squish message bases so that I can use my fido reader. 

Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}matra.com.au)

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