Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!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: 5 Aug 90 17:36:02 GMT References: <1990Jul29.073316.16433@vicom.com> <15709@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <4993@munnari.oz.au> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 21 Paul Anthony MIACH writes: > By passing mail mail to a 'cheaper' site are not you just passing the > bill to another site? It seem that you'll be saving money by making someone > else pay for it. That may be true, but I am sending it to a site that declared itself to be more interested in passing the mail than the sender's choice (if the choices do, in fact, differ). What's more, there will be less phone calls altogether. Consider a path, bionet!oracle!decwrl!sgi!adobe!apple!user. It would get shrunk to apple!user. There I've just saved at least four phone calls. Finally, if a particularly popular site doesn't the cost of phone calls it is making, the site administrator need merely add weight to certain links, and those links will get less mail sent through. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]