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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Justifying uucp domain registry
Message-ID: <2208@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 21:31:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 21:31:27 1987
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> Registering our domain is the right and sensible thing to do. 
> Unfortunately, the people holding purse strings do not seem to
> understand:
> 
> 	"What do we get out of it that justifies us paying $150?"
> 
> I would appreciate some arguments I can send back to the money changers.

I have the same question.  Let me ask another one:

	"What do we get out of it that justifies us paying $150 PER YEAR?"

It seems like a one-time database update to me.  If somebody wants to change
their entry, they can always pay to submit the change, just like with the phone
company.  But why pay every year for no service?

Does Stargate Information Systems have an accountant?  Do they make regular
reports of where the money is going, like Usenix does?  Can we see such a
report?
-- 
Copyright 1987 John Gilmore; you may redistribute only if your recipients may.
(This is an effort to bend Stargate to work with Usenet, not against it.)
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