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From: mason@utcsri.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: news feed & NETNORTH/BITNET
Message-ID: <1898@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 23:29:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 23:29:19 1986
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Reply-To: mason@utcsri.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Organization: University of Toronto/Ryerson Polytechnic Institute
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Summary: 

(This is partially in response to private communications)

There seem to be 2 comments relevant here:
1) RYERSON is directly connected to GUELPH (CANADA1) via a 9600 bps line,
which is connected to (I believe) Cornell via another 9600 bps line.  The
people I have talked to here don't seem even slightly concerned about 1Mb/day
being transferred, particularily if it is overnight, after all that is only
about 20 minutes at that speed.  All the Netnorth links (and I am fairly sure
the bitnet links as well) are dedicated lines, so there is no incremental cost.
(rayan@utai has some doubts about this, I will verify it tomorrow and follow-up)
It is still not clear to me where the news feed onto bitnet would happen, but
I think this is all worth exploring.

2) There is the problem of replies.  I would suggest that our news forwarder
could run through uupath (a path optimizer) to find the best uucp-only
return path from here (or from utzoo) and include that as the return address
so a reply would travel a fairly good uucp-only route by default.
I think this addresses rayan's concerns.

It appears to me that the Bitnet charter & the Usenet charter are almost
identical: ....non-commercial...technical...research...education...
even if the Bitnet charter is more formal.

It seems to me that potentially a lot of money could be saved this way.
	../Dave

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