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From: delaneyg@wnre.aecl.CDN ("H. Grant Delaney")
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Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: 26 Apr 89 22:18:00 GMT
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>There is a direct gateway between BITNET and CA.  BITNET is leased lines
>(not phone bills) and I believe CA is also.  It strikes me that the policy
>is faulty if it reduces you to using World-wide resources to respond to
>individuals.  Not only is there no actual savings, the added cost to others
>is, in aggregate, of a magnitude that I'd expect the USENET administration
>to delete UCalgary from the feed if they realized the implication (I hope
>someone reading this note on USENET knows where to send a query on that
>very issue).  <==== !!!

CA is a generic name for all nets operating in CANADA.  Systems using 
NetNorth(BITNET), CDNnet, UUCP, or EDU can all be registered with the 
CA RELAY  (RELAY.CA) at the University of British Columbia.  A list is
being generated their to give the proper routing within CANADA

As it happens the University of Calgary has both a UUCP and a CDN address while
I'm not sure how UUCP operates but CDNnet uses DATAPAC lines within Canada
When EAN the CDNnet operating system has to make a file transfer UBC the 
central routing site or other sites that arrangements have been made with
the system operator is dialed and the transfer made.  The transfer rates depend
on the modem in use and can be up to 9600 baud .  This is all done using
X400 or X25 proticols and charges are bye time and bytes transferred.

>Murph Sewall                       Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
>Prof. of Marketing     Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
>Business School        sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu          [INTERNET]
>U of Connecticut       {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL     [UUCP]
>           (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM]