Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!rick
From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Summary: uunet costs
Message-ID: <44369@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 12 Jun 88 22:51:22 GMT
References: <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp> <2350@inco.UUCP> <56250@sun.uucp>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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> There's nothing inherently more (or less) expensive about uunet than about
> the rest of USENET. The only difference is that uunet doesn't allow you the
> priviledge of (1) hiding the expenses in the budget, or (2) hiding the
> expenses in someone else's budget by relying on someone else's willingness
> to fund the net for you.

Actually, I think that in general, uunet is less expensive for most sites
(obviously local connections dont count). When you start buying
thousands of hours of 800 service, you can get some pretty cheap
coast-coast rates.

If I could only convince Tynet/Telenet that any additional revenue
during the off peak hours should be considered as profit, then
you could see some REAL cheap rates.

--rick