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From: paul%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Paul Placeway)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: EndOfSourcesList+AnnouncementOfNetOm - (nf)
Message-ID: <3833@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 11:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 18 11:29:08 1987
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In article <1619@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>In article <289@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>>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.)

Quite true.  The Internet is coordinated by the NIC, Period.
osu-eddie runs uucp, receives, stores, forwards, and sends news;
therefore it is a Usenet site.  Eddie is also on CSNet (as
ohio-state.arpa), we can originate and receive TCP/IP sockets, etc.
Since we are on CSNet, using Allnet X25, we have to pay for all CSNet
communication in or out, per packet.  Do you think that we will
forward mail between Usenet and ARPA?  If you think that we will, you
are crazy.  What I am saying is this: Mr. Webber, if you want to pay
for the international communication costs for your sources mailing list
(a truly BAD idea, from a communication efficiency viewpoint), or a
news group (such as alt.sources), fine.  Go right ahead, you will be
doing a service to many people.  If you aren't, then STOP GRIPING
ABOUT IT TO THE REST OF THE NET!

	Tired of hearing the same old trash over and over and over and...


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