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From: rob@elvis.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can someone explain the relationship between domains and uucp?
Message-ID: <31240@philabs.Philips.Com>
Date: 22 Jul 88 01:08:48 GMT
References: <1830@stpstn.UUCP> <2254@epimass.EPI.COM> <568@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <71@jetson.UUCP> <1111@ficc.UUCP> <10348@ncc.Nexus.CA> <838@vsi1.UUCP>
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In article <838@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
|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.

Uunet does not bill like this.  They start the time after the uucico's
identify each other to themselves.  

How can you tell who it is if they don't successfully log in anyway?
Rick has ESP mabye?

rob