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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: The cost of a message
Message-ID: <2501@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 13:23:28 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.2501
Posted: Tue Jan  7 13:23:28 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jan-86 20:23:10 EST
Organization: Circle C Shellfish Ranch, Shores-of-the-Pacific, Ca
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Keywords: Dollars, cost, message, phones

With all this talk of blowing away various news groups and
the great cost of phone calls for the backbone sites, a
question has come to mind.

How much does it cost to send an average/typical message
over the whole net?

As a 'user' of the net, I think some about the cost; but
I have no magnetude to hang onto.  Just a vague feeling
that this must cost some.  It would be very helpful to
me, at least, to know how much I was spending for a typical
30 line posting.  If I knew that the total cost for all
sites for disk space and phone calls was, say, $24, for
some hopeless blather; I would tend not to spend it...
(If it was $1.98 though ... :-)

Does this information exist?  If so, could it be advertised in
the other groups?   Thanks!
-- 
E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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