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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Justifying uucp domain registry
Message-ID: <6479@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 18:35:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.6479
Posted: Tue Jun  2 18:35:57 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jun-87 03:30:39 EDT
References: <855@rtech.UUCP> <2208@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <2208@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
FU 
CK I have the same question.  Let me ask another one:
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NE	 "What do we get out of it that justifies us paying $150 PER YEAR?"
WS
 D It seems like a one-time database update to me.  If somebody wants to change
EA their entry, they can always pay to submit the change, just like with the
D! phone company.  But why pay every year for no service?

I don't know why *they* are doing it that way, but if I were in charge
of things, I too would have a yearly fee.  That way, when a company
goes under, or drops off the net, or whatever, and no one tells the
people keeping the data, that site will be dropped when it comes
time to pay the yearly fee.
-- 
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