Xref: utzoo alt.sources:733 news.admin:6036 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!br From: br@laura.UUCP (Bodo Rueskamp) Newsgroups: alt.sources,news.admin Subject: Re: An apology, and a question (about uucp in Germany) Message-ID: <1433@laura.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 89 10:46:03 GMT References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> Reply-To: br@laura.UUCP (Bodo Rueskamp) Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany Lines: 15 In article <786@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes: >I really don't understand this. Who do you have to pay the $200 to? >In the US, you just find a local Usenet site with a friendly system >administrator and set up a uucp link. If it's a local call, it's free. The German backbone "unido" charges $40..$200 per month. Each German host has this to pay, also if the host isn't directly connected to unido. unido has a news link to the european backbone in Amsterdam and a mail link to uunet. Local phone calls cost $0.01 per minute, a short distance call (20..50 km) cost $0.06 per minute, and a long distance call (over 50 km) cost $0.18 per minute (from 6pm to 8am). -- Bodo Rueskamp,