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From: joshua@Spies.COM (Joshua Geller)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Question about Internet access
Message-ID: <1991May22.050647.11202@Spies.COM>
Date: 22 May 91 05:06:47 GMT
References: <1991May21.041302.23066@Think.COM> <1991May21.182416.12784@athena.cs.uga.edu> <124060@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <124060@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mdf@tut.cis.osu-state.edu (Mark D. 
Freeman) writes:
|>In <1991May21.182416.12784@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu 
|>(Michael A. Covington) writes:
|>>A simple solution for a small corporation would be to use MCI Mail,
|>>which can send and receive messages from the Internet.

|>CompuServe, my employer, also offers an email gateway to the Internet,
|>along with AT&T Mail, and soon to X.400 and MHS-based LAN email
|>systems.

Compu$erve, your employer, periodically bounces massive quantities of mail all 
across the internet, and BITNET etc etc. I have here in my account a 68+ kbyte 
file that consists of nothing but bounced mail messages which were posted by
me to a mailing list, and bounced by Compu$erve, your employer, from the one
Compu$erve (your employer) subscriber who is on said mailing list. Now multiply
that times posts by users perhaps a thousand per week for this mailing list
alone). Now how many subscribers do you have who use mailing lists on the 
internet? Now how much are you charging them not to receive their mail? Now
how much >public< bandwidth are you wasting? Compu$erve, your employer, should
straighten up their act before you talk about their 'email gateway to the 
internet'.


josh