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In article <3at637$pqn@inferno.mpx.com.au>
avatar@jolt.mpx.com.au (Andrew Pam) writes:

> At present, our server is costing us a significant amount of money in AARnet
> volume charges - and as our traffic continues to grow exponentially in
> parallel with the growth of Internet usage, it will become increasingly hard
> to justify these costs when it would be much simpler to move our server
> off-shore to a country without volume charges, or at least more favourable
> charges than those available here.
> 
> Is this what we want for Australia?  Do we want to encourage all our future
> online publishers to move off-shore?  It certainly seems that way.



OK, but you said it all - you are a COMMERCIAL enterprise. Are you
suggesting that you should be able to make money out of something paid
for by AARNet without copping your side of the costs?

The running of such a network is a huge financial responsibility for
AARNet, and whilst I did not jump for joy upon the entrance of volume
charging, I could understand and accept the reasons for it. Someone has
to pay for the network, and why should it be the universities that pick
up the bill for your commercial enterprise?

The ones who will be worst hit are those places that run charity sites
and charge no-one for anything.

Besides, volume charging is coming around the world. It may not have
hit the US yet, but it is imminently expected. Even our own Oz
universities will be paying volume charges before the end of '95.

If you want to blame someone, why not blame your own provider, they
didn't have to pass on the volume charging to you, they could have
soaked it up - But then it wouldn't be long before they went out of
business would it?



T.C. Lawton
New Norcia Library
Holy Trinity Abbey, West Australia

It's hard to sleep at night when you know that a 10 pound frog from
Southern Cameroon might come and jump on your stomach.
                                        Chas. M. Schultz "Snoopy"