Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Commercial Newsfeeds (Was: something else) Message-ID: <2461@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 8 Sep 88 00:31:48 GMT References: <6327@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 27 In article <6327@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >Given what UUNET charges, and how many site they feed and their costs to >do what they do, by some (admittedly) wild asses guessing, there is a >fair amount of money involved here. Now, I'm not casting dispersions >on anyones honesty, but since nobody I know has seen a balance sheet >the impression remains. Read your last sentence again. You most certainly are suggesting that someone is being dishonest, while claiming otherwise. Too bad you missed Rick Adams' excellent and detailed presentation at the SF Usenix. He went into a lot of detail about how much comes in and how much goes out (giving us a rough idea of the balance sheet), and how many megabytes per minute :-) it pumps. The amount of hardware and communication facilities UUNET has is amazing. No public access site (or any site on the net) is in the same league. The whole net would collapse without uunet; it's currently more important to mail topology than ihnp4 ever was. It was a very clever presentation; it was so interesting that those of us who came to fight about Webber, mail rerouting, and comp.?.women forgot all about it until the time ran out! -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins