Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET Message-ID: <919@utoday.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 89 01:25:57 GMT References: <588@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <882@corpane.UUCP> <8594@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> <8276@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1989Jul20.102927.26127@coms.axis.fr> <917@utoday.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 34 In article wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) 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....) > >yes, with one _major_ difference. uunet doesnt care if you >redistribute your news, eunet does. That doesn;t sound all that bad, really: nobody forces somebody to join EUNet. There is a limited market there. Given a site paying EUNet's fees (which don;t seem out of line to me), can't you consider Johann Sebastian Netfeed taking his feed, charging ten leaf nodes he feeds, and leaving EUNet holding the expensive bag? I would think that, eventually, when EUNet becomes the equivalent of UUNET, that restriction will drop. I wonder whether or not UUNET would have been so popular if ihnp4 and the rest of 'em opted to stay instead of go away? Our fees to UUNET are quite reasonable for the service we get. The reason the fees are so low? Because everybody, for the most part, goes to UUNET for the best feed. The leaves we all feed may, eventually, go direct to UUNET one day -- provided the service is still there. EUNet seems, to me, to be trying to survive. Can you get a free feed from US commercial sites? -- Ross M. Greenberg UNIX TODAY! 594 Third Avenue New York New York 10016 Review Editor Voice:(212)-889-6431 BBS:(212)-889-6438 uunet!utoday!greenber BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212