Re: Concerns about Dalhousie-TUNS merger

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From: Chris Maxwell
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:00

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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...?

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From: maxwell@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chris Maxwell)
Subject: Re: Concerns about Dalhousie-TUNS merger
Date: 1996/03/28
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