Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Bitnet gateways? Message-ID: <39918@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 10 Oct 89 03:36:48 GMT References: <1989Oct3.234604.10248@NCoast.ORG> <31716@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <584@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM> <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <2038@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 37 In-reply-to: cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM's message of 9 Oct 89 17:25:08 GMT In article <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: >>Should I frown when your uunet mail comes across to my internet? >Once more, in English, please? >UUNET does not exist to route mail for the known universe. It exists to >provide bidirectional mail and news service to its customers. Any other >services provided (like, say, the devastatingly large anonymous FTP >area) are secondary. If they get in the way of UUNET's primary purpose, >they may go away. On 9 Oct 89 17:25:08 GMT, cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord) said: Cyro> I don't understand what Bill's function is with 'uunet' and wish Cyro> someone would tell me. As a dues paying member of 'USENIX', it seem Cyro> to me that if 'uunet' can't provide both services to it's paying Cyro> customers and the USENET at large, why did we start 'uunet' in the Cyro> first place. As a down stream site, what does 'uunet' do for me that Cyro> 'USENIX' should fund it in the first place unless the funds it makes Cyro> do something for the membership that i'm not aware of at this time. Cyro> As to the FTP area, that only works for internet sites which may or Cyro> may not need this service from 'uunet' and excludes most uucp only Cyro> sites from the same service of getting programs that are stored for Cyro> downloading. What 'bout me? I'm neither a paying customer of UUNET nor am I a USENIX member. But golleee it sure is so much easier to let them do the work than to actually *ask* someone or *look* for those durn gateways, it doesn't cost anything, right? I remember hearing some number such as $4000 (/mo or /yr I don't recall) being used by Rick Adams on the info-nets mailing list. TANSTAAFL, folks. TANSTAAFL. -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."