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From: don@novavax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Justifying uucp domain registry
Message-ID: <343@novavax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 17:25:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: novavax.343
Posted: Fri May 29 17:25:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 11:37:09 EDT
References: <855@rtech.UUCP> <2208@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: don@novavax.UUCP (Don Joslyn)
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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In article <2208@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>> 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?

Let's see now,

	 1000 sites times $150 = $  150,000 year / 12 = $ 12,500 month
	 5000 sites times $150 = $  750,000 year / 12 = $ 62,500 month
	10000 sites times $150 = $1,500,000 year / 12 = $125,000 month

	That's a lot of money!  What are you going to use it for?  Machines,
	paying phone bills, paying employees?

	Maybe I can get a break if I join UUNET? :-)

	Responses to map updates have been slooow.  Have I been noticing the
	extra load put on the volunteers, or is it a hint to pay up?

	Is this money going to be used to fund Stargate (The satellite stuff)?
	If so, I don't want to help pay for it, but I would like to "register"
	my site name.  As a matter of fact, I don't really want to "register"
	my sites name, I just want other sites to know that we exist and who we
	talk to.  Ya know, like it used to work. :-)

Please NO FLAMES!  Even though this looks like a flame, it's not :-)

P.S.	If ya guys need help, let me know.  I'm sure I can get another 50
	volunteers together to help lighten the load.  All ya have to do is
	ask.  I'm sure a small army of people will volunteer :-)