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From: cks@ziebmef.mef.org (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: Domains
Message-ID: <8909130131.AA00451@ziebmef.mef.org>
Date: 13 Sep 89 05:31:19 GMT
Reply-To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@ziebmef.mef.org>
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In-reply-to: bob's message of Fri, 08 Sep 89 21:37:08 EDT.
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bob@gompa writes:
|   I believe the present cost of ONET membership is $18K, including a
| Proteon router and a 56K baud signal circuit.  A local consortium might
| be feasible, but we should be careful to "do it right the first time".

 For those who don't know, I figure I should point out that ONET is a
wide-area-network running TCP/IP; in practical terms this means that
if you aren't a fairly large institution with an existing local-area
network that runs TCP/IP (probably on BSD boxes), you shouldn't
bother. Onet access isn't something that can really be done via a
consortium of sites in any real sense (except by setting up a
central uunet-like site that people dial into).

	- cks