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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: makin' profit at unido (Was : Re: An apology...)
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Date: 7 Jul 89 14:27:35 GMT
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In article <43956@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
writes:
 >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.
 >>
 >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 ...


If there are places such as this one in Italy and the other one someone told us
about in the Netherlands that are receiving news from USA through a different
route than EUUG does, then why don't others ask if they could feed off of them
rather than off of unido? Surely a call to Italy would be cheaper than a call
to the USA. 

Or even better, why doesn't EUUG feed off of those sites? It would be much
cheaper than paying for transatlantic phone calls, eh?

Since the sites (Italy, Netherlands) are already paying for their news and
calling THEM wouldn't cost them anything, I bet they would be happy to allow
EUUG to feed news and mail off of them for a slight fee to cover the cost of
the extra traffic and mail EUUG would generate. Why not ask them?




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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my
life there.