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From: kre@munnari.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Gateway to AT&T Mail
Message-ID: <1189@munnari.OZ>
Date: Sun, 20-Jul-86 08:30:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 20 08:30:59 1986
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In article <657@codas.ATT.UUCP>, mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) writes:
> If you're paying for long distance data lines, and/or communications
> costs, that's one thing, but if another site is charging you for access
> to them, then that is what I disagree with.

You can disagree all you like, but you're not going to change
anything.

Australian, and European, sites have to suffer one very expensive
hop to get mail to & from the US.  Expecting one site to pay the
communication charges for that would be ludicrous.

At munnari (ie: here) we charge all Australian sites the cost of
sending and receiving mail to and from the US (we don't make a
profit, we just recover our costs).  Anyone who "disagrees" with
this policy just doesn't get to send or receive any mail.  For some
surprising reason, no-one has disagreed yet...

Robert Elz    seismo!munnari!kre   kre%munnari.oz@seismo.css.gov