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From: keld@diku.UUCP (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
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Subject: Re: Good luck 8-( Re: A proposal to distribute costs
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Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 17:39:40 EDT
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Well, fellow Americans, it can be done!

The European counterpart to USENET, EUnet (R) features an evenly
distributed cost of the news amongst all sites participating.
We have one central site 'mcvax' in Amsterdam, The Netherlands connected
to several American, Australian and Asian sites, and a backbone in
each country in Europe distributing the news further. The national
bacbones are billed by mcvax on the size of the traffic and the
number of news sites in the country. The national backbones then bill
the news sites in the country. This scheme goes for mail too.

The cost per site for news is typically about USD 1000 per year.
This excludes most soapbox groups though. I think this is a very
reasonable price regarding the traffic (about 10 Mb per month) and 
that it includes all telephone and other transmission charges.
Many other nets charge from USD 5000 a year just to connect to them!
So my boss does not worry about that. But maybe he should worry about
all the time spent by employees on reading that stuff!

So good luck, Americans!

Keld J|rn Simonsen, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark          keld@diku.uucp

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