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Bernadette Foley (akcs.bfoley@vpnet.chi.il.us) wrote:
: I am trying to decide which Internet access system would be the best
: to use to get the above conference from USENET.  Is this system 
: a part of CHINET?  I would be calling from a 312 number in River Grove.
: CHINET and Karl's kitchen are 312 numbers.

I'm a bit confused: chinet is a machine run by Randy Suess, just like
vpnet is a machine run by Gerry Swetsky, and drktowr is a machine run
by me :)

312 number in River Grove?  Hmm.  Interesting.  If you are in River Grove,
chinet, gagme, and ddsw1 might be far to the east for you.  It may
be cheaper (phone bill wise) to call vpnet or oaknet.  I'm not sure.

The point is that you can ask the administrators of the various machines
if they carry that group.  Just send e-mail to root:

e.g.,:
root@vpnet.chi.il.us
root@chinet.chi.il.us (????)
karl@genesis.mcs.com  (for ddsw1 -- i'm not sure about root here...)
root@gagme.chi.il.us
root@oaknet.chi.il.us
root@uumeme.chi.il.us
(er, I'm not sure what domain Randy is using now...sorry).

Each machine can carry all or some groups.  The ones I've mentioned
either carry all or a good portion, and their prices differ depending
on the services they provide, with ddsw1 being the most expensive, but
also providing the most services.  That's my objective view, if you
want my subjective view, I'll tell you in e-mail ;)

BTW, if you want true *Internet* (not just mail or news), Karl's system
(ddsw1) is the only one that provides that.  For now....

-Louis

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