From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!cornell!vax135!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: people who need mail paths - (~nf)
Article-I.D.: floyd.1356
Posted: Sun Mar 27 10:01:23 1983
Received: Tue Mar 29 03:16:47 1983
References: hpda.380

hpda!ld says that BTL only forwards news within the Bell System and
doesn't pay for its UNIX use.

Again, what are you talking about?  My site alone (floyd) forwards
net.all to two non-bell sites (cmcl2 and peri) and we forward some news
to idis.  harpo forwards to seismo, decvax, utah-cs and others.  It has
in the past forwarded to esquire, uwisc, and other remote sites.  BTL
sites forward to stolaf, princeton, cornell, and others.  That's only
netnews, we forward loads of mail too, all over.  You really seem to
talk from ignorance.

And we have to pay "use fees" for each UNIX machine we use.  You can
call it funny money, but especially in these tight economic times and
tough divestiture times, I don't think that any of the money a
department has to spend is funny.

And who pays for UNIX development?  Your piddly license fees?  Ha!
We're a pretty big company and until now we've been distributing UNIX
from the goodness of our heart, not for profit.  We might take in a
million dollars a year or so on UNIX but that's just a drop in the Bell
System bucket, not a major corporate force.

I'm not saying that the Bell System or the UNIX Support people are only
God's gift to the rest of USENET, I'm just annoyed when people take
ignorant potshots.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491