Quoting WILLIAM CONNOR to JIM HENRY concerning uucp provider?:

Hello William,
        Thanks for your message.  I have since found a local provider to
give me UUCP service for $40/month flat rate, for the volume I WAS
paying holonet about $200/month. I am keeping my domain and acct. with
holonet, just drastically reducing its use, and moving most operations
over to my new providcer with a new domain, airgunhq.com.  On the
national level, I have found the Netcom also offers uucp service, for
$75/month flat rate (no volume limit mentioned), so this may be an
option for you.
Jim

WC>JH>         I'm spending over $200/month with Holonet and I have a client
WC>JH>         spending $650/month.  Obviously there's money in it, why aren't
WC>JH>         there more providers??  TIA.

WC>I use Concentric Net, and when asking them about acquiring a
WC>UUCP account, they told me that because of the reasonably
WC>direct access to the UNIX server itself, UUCP accounts
WC>had proven to them to be major security risks.  I am probably
WC>not using the correct terminology, but I trust you understand
WC>what they meant, if not the exact reasoning behind it.

WC>I don't really know much about it, but am trying desperately
WC>to learn, and am just simply lost in the docs.  I have read
WC>so many docs about fido  internet gating that I can't even
WC>keep straight what does what...  At this point, I am getting
WC>my FIDO feed via PPP using batch files, a program called
WC>FD2FTP and calling the provider manually to get/send the
WC>email.  What I need (other than an understanding of what
WC>all these programs do exactly and how to make them do it :),
WC>is a program that will create an email message and attach
WC>(not uuencode) the files in a particular directory to it.
WC>I am sure that I am making things hundreds of times more
WC>difficult for myself than I need to, but since my ignorance
WC>abounds, I must attempt to use what I understand best...  :)

WC>I would appreciate any detailed info that anyone can
WC>provide (now you are all sitting back saying "Well,
WC>stupid, if you give us some specific questions, we
WC>could answer them...  :).

WC>Well, since my ignorance abounds, I will give what info
WC>I can.  I am running a 486DX2-50 with OS/2 Warp Connect,
WC>Renegade v05-11, InterMail and InterEcho.  I have the
WC>IAK for OS/2, but for some reason SENDMAIL won't work
WC>correctly.  I am reasonably sure that it is simply a
WC>misconfiguration on my part, but I simply cannot find
WC>it.  The TCP/IP stack works and I can use Web Explorer,
WC>but when SENDMAIL tries to start up, it tells me that
WC>the TCP/IP is not running, even though I can receive
WC>email before or after SENDMAIL tries to run.  I just
WC>recently found a MAJOR misconfiguration booboo that I
WC>made in trying to give applications mega-memory in
WC>the settings.  Things get upset when you try to pass
WC>out more memory than you have (which btw is only 8
WC>meg).  Well, enough babbling, if this is not enough
WC>information to at least prove that I don't know my
WC>butt from a hole in the ground, let me know what you
WC>think...  :)

WC>ttyl...Bill

WC>--- Renegade v5-11 Exp


Message written at 12:38am, on Wednesday, September 4, 1996.
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