Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <4K:47TE@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 4 Aug 90 02:49:26 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B059CA.57CF@tct.uucp> <1990Jul28.220425.20038@kth.se> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <1990Jul28.220425.20038@kth.se> perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes: > Very true. There seems to be very many people in the US the thinks it > is a duty of the Internet to transport their mail... I see, in Europe, each site is considered a resource drain. In the U.S. each site is considered a potential resource. We pay for Email access to the internet, and would consider it rude were UUNET to tell us we couldn't mail to some site simply because they hadn't jumped through all the hoops yet. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`