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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: makin' profit at unido (Was : Re: An apology...)
Message-ID: <43956@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 18:08:13 GMT
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In article <58956@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
>I have no doubt that they would take everything they could get from the
>local call.
>
>I've been following this saga for years. Every time someone in Europe
>claims to have found a cheaper way to get news/mail to Europe
>they have either 1) been doing something illegal (e.g. using
>stolen x.25 accounts or phone credit cards, etc.) or 2) been flatly wrong.

Well Rick,  I can't speak for Germany but I have been sending news to
Italy for nearly a year now.  My manager knows and the manager over
there knows.  The line is a dedicated leased one so no stolen credit is
being used.

While it isn't a "local" call for them the Italian "backbone" doesn't
seem interested in this ...