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From: philip@axis.fr (Philip Peake)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: mail and news in Europe
Message-ID: <573@axis.fr>
Date: 26 Jun 89 14:20:27 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <928@sering.cwi.nl> <WISNER.89Jun23144304@anableps.berkeley.edu>
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In article <WISNER.89Jun23144304@anableps.berkeley.edu>, wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
> A couple of questions:
> 
> Who administers the top-level domains in Europe? If they are maintained by
> EUnet/EUUG, do only EUUG members get to join those domains? Or, to be more
> succinct, if a company in Outer Boondocks, West Germany polls the US to get
> its own mail, will it be allowed to become company.de?

Only EUUG members may join EUnet.
EUnet was set up by, and is run for the benefit of EUUG members.

There are gateways into various domains.
I think it improbable that a site not passing via one of the official
gateways will be able to register in the (for example) .de domain.

Certainly, mail to/from any site passing vi EUnet will only pass if
that site is willing to pay for its transport costs.

(Can I ask France Telecom to set up a special transfered charge scheme,
so that all of my telephone call charges are transfered to YOUR account ?

PLEASE !!! )

 
> Now that several European countries (including France, Denmark, The
> Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Finland) are directly connected to the
> Internet, will NNTP help bring down the costs of getting news into Europe?

Tell me how the telecoms system knows the difference between bits transfered
via UUCP and those transfered by NNTP ?

Philip