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Article #97Re: Thankyou AARNet..
From: Andrew Pam
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 01:51
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 01:51
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Michael Malone (pariah@iinet.com.au) wrote: : Andrew Pam (avatar@jolt.mpx.com.au) wrote: : : 2. I do not believe that traffic sent should be charged, as it becomes an : : enormous disincentive to provide information services, something I would : : think we are trying to encourage in this country. I note also that : : although universities and the CSIRO are explicity excluded from this, : : secondary schools have to pay commercial prices. : I didn't think that this was the case. I believed that unis would : not be charged for _any_ traffic within Australia, but would be : charged a flat rate for all traffic, both sent and received, : outside of the country. This is not the case. Universities and the CSIRO are currently charged a flat annual fee for bandwidth, but from January 1st will be charged for international volume received (not sent). All others (Value Added Resellers, including organisations that provide connections exclusively to secondary schools) are already being charged for international volume sent and received. Share and enjoy, *** AVATAR *** -- Andrew Pam avatar@aus.xanadu.com Manager, Serious Cybernetics avatar@jolt.mpx.com.au Coordinator, Xanadu Australia <http://www.aus.xanadu.com/> P.O. Box 409, Canterbury VIC 3126 Australia gopher gopher.aus.xanadu.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7b2,31e2bb93b11e8d90 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7b2,public X-Google-Thread: 10726e,31e2bb93b11e8d90 X-Google-Attributes: gid10726e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-25 01:24:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!rutgers!cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!jolt!avatar From: avatar@jolt.mpx.com.au (Andrew Pam) Newsgroups: aus.net.aarnet,alt.internet.services Subject: Re: Thankyou AARNet.. Followup-To: aus.net.aarnet,alt.internet.services Date: 25 Nov 1994 01:51:37 GMT Organization: Microplex Pty Ltd Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3b3fv9$ng1@inferno.mpx.com.au> References: <aldous.785159808@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU> <3aumt1$lfp@classic.iinet.com.au> <3avjcs$hos@inferno.mpx.com.au> <3b0mqm$e8i@classic.iinet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jolt.mpx.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]