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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Cost of posting to the net
Message-ID: <8200@felix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 18:00:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 18:00:20 1987
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Reply-To: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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I recently sat down and computed the cost of posting one byte to the net,
based on the figures in Rick's and Brian's articles in news.lists.

Basically:

	1 byte * .15/minute @800 baud * 7700 sites = .24

I found this pretty amazing, especially considering the number of people who
are intent on ignoring the 4-line signature limit and reposting entire
articles.
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	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
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