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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Re: Gateway to AT&T Mail
Message-ID: <682@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 13:40:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 23 13:40:24 1986
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References: <633@codas.ATT.UUCP> <123@einode.UUCP> <657@codas.ATT.UUCP> <288@micropro.UUCP>
Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
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In article <288@micropro.UUCP>, edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg) writes:
> Oh, come on now!  ATTMAIL isn't a "SITE"  It's a for-profit electronic
> mail carrier.  It happens that a feature of such a service is to pick up
> and deliver mail to Un*x machines running uucp and mail.  Wunnderful!
> 
> If I send mail to ATTMAIL, they're going to charge me a buck or so to
> pass it on, right?  So, is it all so unreasonable to say to the net,
> "NO! YOU CAN'T RUN UP MY ATTMAIL BILL.  I WON'T PAY FOR YOUR TRAFFIC IN
> REAL HARD DOLLARS CHARGED TO MY COST CENTER."

Personally, as far as I'm concerned, no UUCP site should accept mail
from "attmail" unless it is allowed to return mail through "attmail"
for free.  A site that expects others to take its mail for free but
charges the same site for replies is a parasite, plain and simple.
The fact that it is a for-profit parasite makes it worse.

This issue won't be going away.  Unless attmail finds some gullible 
fool, or cuts a deal like this with one or more sites, I suspect
their connectivity on the net is going to gradually decrease to
nothingness.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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