Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 22:00:10 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B059CA.57CF@tct.uucp> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 30 lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: > 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; > 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 advertise, in your UUCP map entry, connections to a dozen other sites. Is it evil or rude, for someone to build a UUCP path that passes through your machine to one of those sites? If you don't want this mail passing through your system, why are you advertising the links, with those costs? If you're getting UUCP paths that have ...!bionet!something!... where 'something' isn't one of your neighbors, this is broken and I assume you bounce the mail. > 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. And we pay a part of the cost of delivering other peoples' mail, too. If we didn't think it was worth it, we wouldn't publish the links. One thing we _don't_ do is advertise a link then refuse to pass mail through it. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz