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From: sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart T. Fleming)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: UKC and mail prices
Message-ID: <1948@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jan 91 14:28:23 GMT
References: <PCG.91Jan6145604@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk> <PCG.91Jan12194157@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk>
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In article <PCG.91Jan12194157@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
|> On 9 Jan 91 12:11:06 GMT, igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) said:
|> 
|> igb> We pay ``the right amount''.  Our fees to Kent are around 20 grand
|> igb> a year.  I have people reading from another site over nntp, and we
|> igb> pay the extra whatever for them.
|> 
|> If you really meant *twenty* (instead of *two*, and a spurious zero)
|> thousand pounds per year, you are insane :-).
|> 

Yes.  Jim Reid elsewhere gave an estimate of UKCs costs as "not less
than 250K p.a."  How many sites are there in this country paying 20K per year
for a full news feed ?  More than, or less than 13 ?

|> --
|> Piercarlo Grandi                   | ARPA: 

Stewart
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sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk                                ...ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!sfleming
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