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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: UUNET Communications Service Available
Message-ID: <43728@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sat, 2-May-87 22:33:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  2 22:33:32 1987
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: C&P

A previous article mentioned that there would be a short delay in
the original startup time.

Currently UUNET is delayed waiting for the local phone company
to install the leased line. If there are no more delays, the line
should be installed by the end of this week. (Watch for a specific
announcement later this week.)

The $30 per month is necessary to cover administrative overhead and
other costs. It could have been priced at $4 per hour with a $50 minimum
or something similar. I hate minimums. They disguise the real costs of things.
It is simpler to figure with a fixed fee + a minimum. (It also makes
corporate accounting people happier. They loathe minimums.)

The pricing scheme is not unusual. For example, a business
telephone is about $18 per month plus 10 cents per call. (I.e. Fixed
fee for the connection plus usage)

Login information should be mailed on Monday or Tuesday for those
sites who have already returned the subscription forms. We couldn't
mail them out until Tymnet gave us the login information for Tymnet
itself.  (You have to first log into Tymnet, then into the UUNET computer)

---rick