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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.config,news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Cost-per-reader bug found
Message-ID: <2350@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 88 16:40:38 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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A significant percentage of the sites that ship news around over great
distances (the 'backbone'-- however you define that) use NNTP over the
Internet.  That would further reduce the 10c/min transmission cost
figure that Arbitron uses.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I've never liked reality all that much, but I haven't found a
better solution."		--Dave Haynie, Commodore-Amiga