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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: EndOfSourcesList+AnnouncementOfNetOm - (nf)
Message-ID: <1619@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 21:53:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: celtics.1619
Posted: Thu Jul 16 21:53:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:59:11 EDT
References: <267@brandx.UUCP> <7200004@iaoobelix.UUCP> <289@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: CELERITY (Northeast Area), Framingham, MA
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In article <289@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>From my experience trying to get a sources mailing list together, I
>quickly found out that the gateways out of the U.S. to places like
>Europe and Austrailia are downright paranoid about communications cost.

If you consider the fact that they have to pay for them, rather than getting
gifdts from your and my tax money, to be "downright paranoid", then you are
right, they're downright paranoid.  Sane people think they're realistic.

>For all practical purposes, they are playing by a different set of rules
>than the portion of Usenet that is inside the United States (and portions
>of Canada).  All of these nets are referred to collectively as Internet.

"The portion of Usenet that is inside the United States (and portions of
Canada)" is NOT the Internet, nor is the collection of those systems and
the aforementioned European and Australian nodes.  My system shares UUCP
connections with its news feeds.  Since it carries news, it is a Usenet
site.  It is NOT an Internet site, as it has no TCP/IP based connections
with the network coordinated by the NIC.  (That network is the Internet.)

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