raj@spl1.UUCP (Robert Alan Johnson) (06/17/88)
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This is a repost of an earlier notice. With the coming departure of
ihnp4 and cbosgd from the net, there will, no doubt, be many mail and
news orphans. We, for one, would like to do our part to help the net
wean from AT&T with a minimum of disruption.
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We would like to let all you netlanders know that site spl1 is available to
provide news feeds and mail links to virtaully all comers *WITH* *NO*
*ADMINISTRATION* *OR* *SERVICE* *CHARGES*
spl1 is located in downtown Chicago and now has multiple USR Courrier HST's,
TELEBIT TRAILBLAZERS, and a gaggle of vanilla 2400BPS modems online
on our news/mail engine machine to support feeds.
The site is accessable through PC Persuit and operates 24 Hours/Day 7
Days/Week. It is dedicated exclusively to providing news and mail service.
If there any sites which are interested in:
o Getting a news feed
o Getting a mail link
o Switching their feed to a high speed (Telebit or HST)
DDD/ (your) Out WATS site
o Picking up alt, biz, unix-pc, bionet, ddn, pubnet,
gnu or other non-standard groups,
we would be happy to accept new users (again, no fees involved).
Sound too good to be true? It's not. spl1 is now feeding sites like
Arthur Anderson's Corporate Offices, AT&T's National Tech Support Center,
The Santa Cruz Operation, The Internal Revenue Service, Beatrice Foods'
Corporate Offices, Reuter's Rich Inc, the Navy, Public Access BBS's,
Universities and many others.
spl1 is well connected to multiple east coast, west coast and Canadian
sites. We maintain exceptional email delivery performance.
We've been up continuously for over a year now (knock on wood, a good
indicator of reliability) and haven't yet missed a feed for our sites.
(Except when Illinois Bell Burns down!)
Qualification for connection to our site is a function of the number of
news readers your site supports and your willingness to offer downstream
feeds. We want to help extend and support USENET, helping a good thing
get better.
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Robert A. Johnson, SysAdmin {elroy,lll-winken,hombre,irs3,laidbak}!spl1!raj
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