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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: i2ack request for news/email supply connection
Summary: Are those Eunet costs for real?!
Message-ID: <9198@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 22 Jan 89 04:29:36 GMT
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In article <102@i2ack.UUCP>, venta@i2ack.UUCP (Paolo Ventafridda) writes:
>	In addition, one has to pay for the backbone transmission costs, which
> charges 1024 bytes 0.25 $  , PLUS an yearly additional fee for News.

If that's U.S. dollars, that's a HUNDRED times the average cost per
kilobyte that Brian Reid estimates in his monthly readership summaries.
A full newsfeed would cost over $1000 per day at those rates!

If this is accurate:  Why does Eunet have to cost so much?

Sysadmins on Eunet must have thought up some really impressive
justifications for something that costs this much.  I can't justify
even our far lower costs, leaving me little choice but to cut back
again and again, so I would really like to know the magic words that
you say to your management.