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Re: Is it time for a "uunet-north"?

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From: Doug Eastick
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 17:50
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lamy@cs.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>[...] and the 16K$ per year
>charge would likely be quite competitive with your actual communication tab
>(avoiding headaches running the link too).

Currently $18k/year and I suspect it will rise.

I thought UTCS's link to the NSFnet was 56k? not 32k.

>Finally, the idea of dropping lines to the US and running T1 there is actually
>illegal, as I understand things.

It was a joke.
--
Doug Eastick -- eastick@me.utoronto.ca
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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Re: Is it time for a "uunet-north"?
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Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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