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maxwell@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chris Maxwell) wrote:

>Stephen Gregory (gregorse@tuns.ca) wrote:
>: I was thinking about computer resource allocation earlier today and it
>: worried me. TUNS has close to 30 28.8 modems this is enough so that I
>: don't wait forever to dial in. TUNS also has easy slip/ppp access. I
>: don't believe DAL has either. (Although DAL does have slip/ppp you just
>: have to pay for it right?) I would not like to lose the current level of
>: service that exists at TUNS.


>  Um, my impression that Dalhousie was not allowed to offer SL/IP/PPP access
>free of charge due to the contract that any NSTN customer had to 
>sign about not passing the packets on.  I am surprised that TUNS is 
>allowed, and am wondering whether perhaps it was just that NSTN did 
>not know...?

>--
> -Chris Maxwell, Chase Bldg, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
>        [ maxwell@ug.cs.dal.ca / maxwell@holly.cs.dal.ca  ]
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>"Rise up and throw down your oppressed!"   | not think as I Do.

For the record, our contract with i*Star did not prohibit dial up
services to our own students, faculty or staff.  It only prohibited us
from reselling services to people or organizations outside of TUNS.  I
can only speak about our contract as I have no knowledge of the
Dal/iStar contract.




Perry M. Sisk
Director, Computer and Communications Services
Technical University of Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 2X4