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From: rhealey@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET, long distance charges
Keywords: unido, blacklisting, domain .de, subnet,
Message-ID: <1370@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 89 22:22:44 GMT
References: <588@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <882@corpane.UUCP> <8594@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> <1477@laura.UUCP> <8229@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <507@infoac.rmi.de> <749@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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In article <749@ecrcvax.UUCP> dave@ecrcvax.UUCP (Dave Morton) writes:
>Correct - this is how it is. People in the USA dont seem to realise
>that an X.25 call here in Germany costs the same regardless of
>distance. Also note that shipping News using currently
>approved modems (2400 baud) within Germany would work out much more
>expensive that X.25, especially from unido to Munich (~600 km = long
>distance call). I cant possibly imagine anyone being dumb enough to
>ship > 60MB News per month across the pond without cost sharing
>and regardless of modem or X.25. Across the pond = very long distance
>call = big money !
>
	What if you were to get sites at X Km apart so as to make it NOT
	be long distance calls? i.e.

	Site A-------Site B------Site C- || -Site X------Site Y----Site Z
		5km	     5km         5km         5km        5km
	 \------------------- 100 - 200 km total -------------------/

	Site a relays to b relays to c etc. that's how we dodge long distance
	charges in the US. Trouble comes when you try to cross a bell zone,
	you gotta find 2 citys in adjacent bell zones that are close enough
	so that calls betwixed them are considered local.

		-Rob Healey

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