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From: jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: makin' profit at unido (Was : Re: An apology...)
Summary: no profit :-(
Message-ID: <1444@laura.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 15:43:16 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <263@icdi10.UUCP>
Reply-To: jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <263@icdi10.UUCP> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
>Also unido controls things tightly to feed anyone over there at a profit.

Wrong. We don't make profit. In fact, our laws in gemany do not allow
universities to make profit. The money we raise is used for maintenance
of our equipment and for paying (small) wages to the students running the
backbone, and last not least for paying our share of transmission-costs
to the european backbone mcvax. 
We have to spend money for running the backbone and for getting a
computer on which we can do serious work, because our university
is not willing to pay or contribute system-time anymore, and noone
is donating us anything.

We like to have as much users as possible to minimize the costs for everyone.

>I have a friend with a Telebit who is trying to set up a direct call to me to
>receive a few groups and then pass them around. But woe be to him if he's
>found out. Yep, be glad you live here.

No problem in germany too, as long as 1 is paying and the rest does
not want to appear explicitly in the maps.

Maybe noone is following the discussion: read dfk@cwi's article...

	Jan-Hinrich
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			      Jan-Hinrich Fessel
	Universitaet Dortmund, IRB	jf@unido.uucp  ||  jf@unido.bitnet
	There's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day... F.Z.
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