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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: FEED FOR GERMANY   WAS:Re: An apology, and a question (uucp in Germany)
Message-ID: <3553@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 89 18:48:15 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <3631@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <3631@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Get ten or so systems together, and have one of them poll us.  We'll feed
>'ya over there in Germany if you can call here.  We have a Telebit, and the
>spare capacity.  And we're reliable as a news source.
>
>Then distribute the newsgroups you get and take donations to defray the costs.
>Once you have a few sites doing this Unido will look quite a bit less 
>attractive... and they will fall to the almighty God of Capitalism......

  This might work, and as some readers of this group may recall, I have even
been contacted by someone in Germany who was considering setting up something
like this (and I got quite a list of volunteers to feed them; no problem
there). However, there is one thing that must be borne in mind: right now
there is no path to the rest of Europe that doesn't either go to the US
and back through mcvax, or through unido. EUnet is not about to forward
mail for sites that are not paying the fees at the expense of those who are.
This means that a group of sites using this setup could get news, and send
mail to the US, but they couldn't send mail to anyone on EUnet, which would
include all European sites outside of their little group. This might be a 
fairly high price to pay just to save money.

--Greg