Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can someone explain the relationship between domains and uucp?
Message-ID: <838@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 01:16:52 GMT
References: <1830@stpstn.UUCP> <2254@epimass.EPI.COM> <568@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <71@jetson.UUCP> <1111@ficc.UUCP> <10348@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <10348@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
[[ talking about problems connecting to uunet]]
|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.

How does uunet determine its billing?  I can't believe that there could be a
connect charge without a login.  How would they know who placed the call?
I could believe they might charge for FAILED(startup), although they shouldn't.