Xref: utzoo news.admin:12724 news.misc:6247 comp.mail.uucp:6070 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!ox.com!umich!umeecs!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!sialis!dmshq!com50!rosevax!uci!clay From: clay@uci.com (Clayton Haapala) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI Message-ID: <1991Mar12.162513.19678@uci.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 16:25:13 GMT References: <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> <1991Mar5.141606.1797@uu.psi.com> <1991Mar07.014612.4537@utoday.com> Organization: Unified Communications, Inc. Lines: 36 > >---------------v------v-----BEGIN PSI LETTER---v-----v-------v----- > >From: John Eldredge, Director of Sales & Marketing >Subject: Changes in Terms and Conditions of UUPSI Service >Date: February 28, 1991 . . . > For those wishing no restraints in the area of third-party >traffic, a more epxensive service is now available under a separate >contract. Please contact UUPSI Sales in Reston for more details. I am >enclosing the new UUPSI Order Form for your information. > >Enclosure > >-------------^---------^-------END OF PSI LETTER-----^-----^----^-- IMHO, in the networked environment we live in, it makes no sense to restrict the third-party traffic that of which this letter speaks. What makes sense is to make charges based on volume, and use tiers to allow rates to resemble the flat rate structure the PSI desires. If I was a PSI subscriber with a small number of other UUCP sites that generated a minor amount of Email and fewer news postings, I would feel that I should stay in the lowest flat-rate tier. On the other hand, if I was a PSI leaf-site, and my address was "joe@a-s-p-posters.com" :-) and we generated megabytes/day of traffic, PSI ought to move me into a more high-priced tier based on that volume. The accounting needed (uutraf | grep "a-s-p-posters" | ....) would have to be easier than the per message/article processing that detects third-party traffic. -- Clayton Haapala (clay@uci.com) Unified Communications Inc. "Every morning I get in the Queue. 3001 Metro Drive - Suite 500 'n get on the Bus that takes me to you." Bloomington, MN 55425 -- the Who