Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!dpz
From: dpz@aramis.rutgers.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Justifying uucp domain registry
Message-ID: <751@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 20:01:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: aramis.751
Posted: Thu Jun  4 20:01:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 11:00:36 EDT
References: <855@rtech.UUCP> <2208@hoptoad.uucp> <6479@ism780c.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 20

[ eat me ]

> From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)

> 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.

Well... I don't think that would be a justifiable reason.  You could
just as easily give an electronic or snailmail ping instead of that.
A yearly fee should pay for something, not be something to be billed
to see if you are still alive.

My theory?  They're saving it all for a mega-huge New Years Eve party.

						dpz
-- 
David P. Zimmerman           rutgers!dpz           dpz@rutgers.edu