Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can someone explain the relationship between domains and uucp?
Message-ID: <10348@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 20 Jul 88 21:06:32 GMT
References: <1830@stpstn.UUCP> <2254@epimass.EPI.COM> <568@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <71@jetson.UUCP> <1111@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <1111@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <71@jetson.UUCP>, john@jetson.UUCP (John Owens) writes:
>> NOTE: I believe that Rick has said that if people start using uunet as
>> a general Internet->UUCP gateway he will disable auto-routing...
>
>This is odd, since any traffic is more income for them. What's the
>logic behind this?

Actually, it's resulting in *less* income for them.

When we first signed up for uunet, we brought in nearly all the
comp groups, and gatewayed about 75% of our mail through them as
well. Now that uunet has become the great dumping ground that seismo
used to be, at least 50% of my calls to them fail, due to the 
excessive load on that machine. As a result, we no longer take any
newsgroups (well, a couple) from uunet, and the only mail going through
them is for Europe or very closely connected sites.

This is also a real pain in the ass when you look at our phone bill
It costs me $4.00 every time their modem answers (3 minute minimum
charge per call). That's four dollars for every LOGIN FAILED, etc.,
of which we are getting to damn many.

I would be quite happy if the router was shut off for non-customers
(can you say mmdf?).

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