[ih] X.25

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)]

John R. Levine via Internet-history writes:

> That makes sense.  In the U.S. a great deal of uucp traffic was routed 
> through Bell Labs which could sort of ignore its phone bills, and much of 
> the rest in local clusters that were free or at least untimed phone calls. 
> In Canada, you had to pay the phone bills so X.25 was cheaper.

alberta (U of Albeta) had a link with ihnp4 for email.  I don't think they
swapped news with them. They were a major email hub for western Canada.
The obscenely large long distance charges we funded by (I think) Tony
Marsland (one of the Comp. Sci. profs) out of his research budget.  (It
might have been another prof, memory fades ...)

utzoo (U of Toronto Zoology, Henry Spencer) also had a big phone bill with
ihnp4, IIRC.  

--lyndon