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Dear Colleagues:

I am interested in knowing details about how Bitnet is organized, specially
at the financial level. In Europe EARN establishes a subscription fee for
each country, that is used for administrative, management and technical
development tasks. In the countries the way to pay the subscription varies,
in some cases it is distributed among all the sites, in others it is
paid by the national academic networking organization. The amount of
the subscriptions and the way the money is used are publicized and
available for everyone in several documents in the LISTSERV at FRORS13.

Is there a subscription fee for every site, node or organization in Bitnet?
(I don't consider subscription fee the cost of the connection to the next
node).

Is there a server (like FRORS13) where I can obtain details of the fee and
the way the money is used?

I myself am director of EARN in Spain and am trying to get arguments to
convince the Director of my national academic networking organization
about paying the EARN fee; at the present time in Spain the fee is
paid by the nodes. My Director claims that in Bitnet there is no fee,
so he says, Why is there a fee in EARN?.

regards,
Rogelio Montanana, System Analyst             Tel:(346)3864310 Fax:(346)3864200
Valencia Univ. Computer Center                     Bitnet: montanan at evalun11
Dr. Moliner, 50                                  Internet: montanan@vm.ci.uv.es
46100 Burjassot                   Hepnet: evalun::montanan (or 16530::montanan)
Spain                 X400: C=es;A=mensatex;P=iris;O=uv;OU=ci;OU=vm;SN=montanan