Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!jerry
From: jerry@oliveb.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Net saturation
Message-ID: <23777@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 15 Jun 88 18:09:37 GMT
References: <3772@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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In article <3772@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes:
>								It seems
>like a good solution to just encourage more sites to get on the
>Internet;

>I realize that laying down a connection to a neighbor site is very
>expensive, but it can be done, and in the long run might prove more
>cost-effective than placing lots of long-distance UUCP calls.

Ah, if only it were that simple.  As I understand it there are
restrictions on who can connect to the internet.  Sites that are
connected have a clause in their contract that prohibits them from
connecting someone else up and passing their traffic.

This is all hearsay so if someone in the know would publish a summary of
ways to get an internet connection I would be most pleased to read it.