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From: root@infoac.rmi.de (Operator)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET
Keywords: unido, blacklisting, domain .de, subnet,
Message-ID: <507@infoac.rmi.de>
Date: 18 Jul 89 13:45:28 GMT
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dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Right now, when a site finds another and feeds news to it, its costs do
>not get halved.  Instead they will decrease by a very small fraction
>(and probably not immediately).  So there is very little incentive for
>people to feed news to others.  You will get new sites but very
>slowly.

Right now I found the new fees of unido and they honor the re-
distribution of newa: you get a discount of 25% per 4 host fed by
you.

So they have new ideas. But another problem just is: We supply
redistribution, but the interest is low. Everybody has to pay
for X.25 or telephone and always long distance calls.  So it seems
to be the idea of those people: If I have to pay long distance I 
could rather poll unido itself ...

(See: I pay abt DM 300/month ($150.-) to unido and abt DM 3000 ($1500.-)
to the Bundespost for the lines. So what is the discussion about?
50.000.000 Bytes of News is a high Volume for X25 - and you pay the
Volume, not the time...)

Rupert
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