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In article <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>,
wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>>Should I frown when your uunet mail comes across to my internet?
>Once more, in English, please?
>UUNET does not exist to route mail for the known universe. It exists to
>provide bidirectional mail and news service to its customers. Any other
>services provided (like, say, the devastatingly large anonymous FTP
>area) are secondary. If they get in the way of UUNET's primary purpose,
>they may go away.

On 9 Oct 89 17:25:08 GMT,
cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord) said:

Cyro> I don't understand what Bill's function is with 'uunet' and wish
Cyro> someone would tell me. As a dues paying member of 'USENIX', it seem
Cyro> to me that if 'uunet' can't provide both services to it's paying
Cyro> customers and the USENET at large, why did we start 'uunet' in the
Cyro> first place. As a down stream site, what does 'uunet' do for me that
Cyro> 'USENIX' should fund it in the first place unless the funds it makes
Cyro> do something for the membership that i'm not aware of at this time.
Cyro> As to the FTP area, that only works for internet sites which may or
Cyro> may not need this service from 'uunet' and excludes most uucp only
Cyro> sites from the same service of getting programs that are stored for
Cyro> downloading.

What 'bout me?  I'm neither a paying customer of UUNET nor am I a USENIX
member.  But golleee it sure is so much easier to let them do the work
than to actually *ask* someone or *look* for those durn gateways, it
doesn't cost anything, right?

I remember hearing some number such as $4000 (/mo or /yr I don't recall)
being used by Rick Adams on the info-nets mailing list.

TANSTAAFL, folks.  TANSTAAFL.
-- 
 Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90  <ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet>
 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."