Re: Feed Capacity Available

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From: Ralph Sims
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 19:15

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kelsey@mdd.comm.mot.com (Joe Kelsey) writes:

>In <1992Sep3.181138.3689@stephsf.com> wengland@stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:

>>   With the Demise of Polari as a news  distributer (Bruce switched 
>>   to PSI who, I believe, does not allow Usenet to their customers to 
>>   be redistributed.)

>Note that PSI physically cannot place such a restriction on any site.  What
>PSI attempts to do through contract restrictions involves preventing a site
>that pays for leaf-node service from forwarding posts from downstream sites.
>You can easily get around this restriction by simply forwarding your
>downstream posts through an alternate site -- something easy to arrange since
>the post volume generally amounts to a trickle compared to the receive
>volume...

....or by paying the rates they want for the 'forwarding'.  Shouldn't
be any more than $500/month. ;-(

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From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: Feed Capacity Available
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