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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
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Subject: Re: An apology, and a question (about uucp in Germany)
Summary: Get those numbers right.
Message-ID: <16731@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 23 Jun 89 12:42:04 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <987@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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In article <987@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>                                                       So, assuming $200/
>month is the goal (not desired, of course (:-() and 30 days per month and (just)
>1K per article:
>
>	$200.00	    $6.67		$6.67   1 article     9.53 articles
>	-------  =  -----	and,    ----- x ---------  =  -------------
>	30 days	    1 day		1 day	  $0.70		   day

Try a TB then.  Assuming 1.5K per second [ 15Kbaud ], you get 90 articles
per minute.  If you take that $6.67 per day allowance and turn it into
minutes you get 9.5 minutes per day or 850 articles, which is about half
a full feed.

These numbers scale fairly easily.  A full feed would be about $400/month,
and a transatlantic feed at $1.50/minute would be near $900.  I understand
a group of Italians is doing exactly this.
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