Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 90 17:54:12 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B059CA.57CF@tct.uucp> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 14 Money has everything to do with it. I consider it evil and rude for you to take a suboptimal route by making a machine place any unnecessary call that will cost money; and if you don't believe that happens, you should see just how many people still use news paths to get their replies through; you should see just how many weird UUCP addresses get left in mailing list files and forgotten. I consider it evil and rude for you to even complain that any site from which you derive a FREE service sends your mail by a faster and or cheaper path. YOU are not paying the bill. Even in the case of UUNET customers, they only pay a small fraction of the cost of the delivery of their mail. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]