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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.admin,eunet.news,uk.news
Subject: Re: News transmission costs (in/to the UK) - ERROR
Summary: I was wrong - correction follows
Keywords: Sorry
Message-ID: <1570@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 3 Jul 89 21:34:48 GMT
References: <1551@stl.stc.co.uk>
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In article <1551@stl.stc.co.uk> I wrote:

[lots of data about BT comms charges] followed by:
#  (ukc's) charges for international mail used to be quite high, but
#since ukc got a 64k leased line to mcvax (which already has a similar line
#to uunet), they now charge #2 per MByte for mail to/from outside the UK 

ERROR!    As has been pointed out to me, I GOT IT WRONG.
Seems I cannot multiply correctly late at night....

The actual figure quoted by ukc is #0.02/Kb (so a small mail message really
is '2 cents worth').     For reasons I cannot understand, I then published
that as #2 per MByte - the figure should really have been #20 per MByte.
Still a big improvement on the old rates of up to #80/Mbyte.  
(#20 is about $32).

Also, the ukc--mcvax leased line runs at 9600 baud not 64k.
The mcvax--uunet line is 64k, (slugged down to 56k to meet US standards).

As far as I can check, all the other data in the original article is correct.

Mea culpa and all that.

Regards,    David Wright       STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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