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From: news@orcenl.uucp (News adm'r, Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: An apology, and a question (about uucp in Germany)
Message-ID: <2141.orcenl@orcenl.uucp>
Date: 29 Jun 89 09:24:58 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <567@axis.fr> <1550@stl.stc.co.uk> <292@lancelot.UUCP>
Reply-To: news@oracle.nl (News admnr. Bjorn Engsig)
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[ I still don't see why this is crossposted to alt.sources, please stop that ]

In article <292@lancelot.UUCP> lance@lancelot.UUCP (Lancelot of Caid) writes:
>You all pay more for your News feed now and you would not have to deal
>with the backbones! You can create your own for less!
...
>Nothing more. If people work together then the costs come out to be VERY
>minimal!
That is exactly the point of EUnet!  The more to join - the more to share -
the lower the price!

If you look at the current discussion in comp.mail.sendmail about rerouting
bang paths (this comes up every half year or so in different groups), there
is one really good reason to use EUnet - we simply don't have those kind
of problems, we don't need pathalias, we are wellorganized.  Just send all
mail off to your backbone and it is delivered.  (Unless of course, the
recipient is somebody far away along a bad bang path in the disorganized 
Usenet, where lot's of US sites do strange things to you address.)

Here on EUnet, *anybody* can be reached by host!user or
user@subdomain.domain.country - isn't that one good reason to support it?

Eerh ... by the way ...  what is a UUCP-map :-)
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