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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET
Keywords: unido, blacklisting, domain .de, subnet,
Message-ID: <918@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 01:20:00 GMT
References: <588@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <882@corpane.UUCP> <8594@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> <917@utoday.UUCP> <5198@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
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In article <5198@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <917@utoday.UUCP>, greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>> (It sorta sounds like EUNet is simply a European version of UUNET....)
>
>This is a joke, right? I mean, UUNET doesn't expect anyone to pay extra because
>they're getting a feed from us that we got from UUNET.
>-- 

Nope. It sounds to me that EUNet is taking the cost of getting articles,
which includes things (for them) like telecommunications charges on a per
packet basis, and spreading it to their members.  Trying to provide a
service and keep the cost down.

Is anybody making a profit from EUNet, I wonder?



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