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From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail wants you to register a domain (using Path: for replies)
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Date: 30 Aug 88 01:01:29 GMT
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In article <998@cbnews.ATT.COM> mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
>This costs us money, since otherwise some of
>these folks might join the UUCP Zone at the $50 rate, but we judged
>that connectivity and service were more important.

No, it doesn't cost you any more money than normal listings do.
I'm personally responsible for getting three sites (so far; more are
coming) into the US domain. All three are sites that already had map
entries and that would NOT have payed $150 to enter the UUCP Zone.

I don't say you're evil commercial moneygrubbers. Surely, you ARE
providing a service. But don't even try to pretend that there aren't
alternatives. Entering the US domain is just a bit less painless than
utilizing the UUCP Project, and the truly masochistic can deal directly
with the NIC. You are simply one of a number of options.

>The US domain, for
>example, appears to be subsidized by DARPA and SRI.  If they are
>willing to do it, I say more power to them.

Nearly all of the US domain administration is performed by ONE individual
at ISI. She's not getting paid for her time, either. All that DARPA and
SRI did was approve the creation of the domain. If the US domain is in
any way subsidized, it's by ISI. They provide the nameservers. Somehow
I doubt that that counts.