Xref: utzoo news.admin:4524 news.sysadmin:2066 news.config:1085 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!debra From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.config Subject: Re: French and UK sites wanted for EUcon. Message-ID: <8814@alice.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 89 17:20:09 GMT References: <96@i2ack.UUCP> <303@dcs.UUCP> <55538@pyramid.pyramid.com> <105@i2ack.UUCP> <459@eda.com> <32219@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs Lines: 18 In article <32219@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bill Wisner writes: }>I feel appalled that in this time of increased connectivity, we now }>are creating a situation in which some people on Usenet cannot }>communicate with other people on Usenet. } }Picture: a EUCon user sends mail to pyramid, to uunet, to EUNet. }Simple enough, no? But crazy. I don't want to send mail to a friend, 2 blocks away, through another continent! The fact that there is a backbone 1 block away that asks thousands of dollars to enable me to send mail to my friend is absurd, especially since on top of these dollars I still have to pay the phone-bill. Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------