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From: gp@sys.uea.ac.uk (George Papadopoulos CMP RA)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Bitnet service is free (?)
Message-ID: <594@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 89 15:48:27 GMT
Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK
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I often here the expression "bitnet service is free of charge" in the sense
that if you are a member of a university you don't have to pay anything to
register and use it (as opposed, say, to using ARPA or UUCP).
But surely someone pays for the provision of this service. So where does
the money come from?

George


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