Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: help starting archive mail server Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 90 13:28:59 GMT References: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > If the transport mechanisms > are all on zero-incremental-cost-per-use networks, all is well... You forgot one very large case: UUNET customers. We pay for the incremental cost of moving that Chunk Of Stuff ourselves. Why should we have to switch to an even more expensive transport mechanism? Yes, anonymous UUCP is more expensive, just from the time needed for the local system admin folks to set up and debug each individual link... if you guys offering anonymous UUCP would standardise your chat scripts it'd probably be a different matter. Now if UUNET were to provide a method of doing anonymous FTP to their customers directly, you'd have a case. But they don't, so we need our mail servers. The irony is that it's us UUNET customers that are likely the main store and forward sites you're trying to protect. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.