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In article <58-PCNews-124beta@pos.apana.org.au> 
(Mark Purcell) writes: 

> There is one option which I have found and adopted, that is the
> Australian Public Access Network Association (APANA) which uses the MX
> *.apana.org.au.  This is a non profit organisation which is trying to
> support Public access in Australia.  APANA has set up a uucp network across

       It sounds like you folks need to stimulate the "for profit"
       network business that is turning NA into an on-line society.

       Many thousands of us pay about $100/year (the cost of two good
       technical reference books) for internet/uucp access via
       commercial hosts set up for that purpose. Most of these are in
       someone's basement or den.

       In Ottawa (pop. 400,000) there are at least two 'pure' uucp
       services and a number of BBS' that include internet mail and
       usenet news along with the dozen or so BBS networks. The small
       fee ensures that each of these services has hundreds of users;
       more than enough to pay for the equipment and lines.

> the country linking major cities via the one MX, with member sites paying for
> the long distance calls from their back pocket.  But AARNET aren't really happy
> with this, using one MX to service groups of machines which may be
> in other states, and want to hit APANA with $1000/state for usage.

        AARNET needs a few competitors who're not so greedy. I'd lobby
        your indigenous BBS community to take a shot at it.

        Cheers,

                Marc

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