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In article <1306@pkmab.se>, ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
> In article <95@coms.fr> philip@axis.fr (Philip Peake) writes:
> >One day soon, EUnet will be running a 'sender pays' scheme, rather than
> >the current 'receiver pays' scheme.
> 
> Isn't that bad for archive sites that distribute files by mail (rather than
> ftp) ?

There are two responses to this:

1)	EUnet is currently working hard on setting up an EUnet-wide
	archive service - probably distributed over all the backbone
	sites to help solve the disc-space problem.

	A request sent to your backbone will look up the source in a
	data-base and forward the request to the site holding those
	sources, who will then send the source to the requester.

	I believe that the UK alreasy runs a scheme like this.

	Since this activity takes place on backbone machines, mostly
	over high speed leased lines, there should be no problem in
	putting some mark on the resulting mail which allows it to pass
	'free of charge' between backbone sites, and be 'reverse charged'
	when it is deliverd to the requester.

	Any independent archive sites may well have problems, but see
	the next point.

2)	In the near future, it may be possible to have IP access to EUnet.
	This would allow ftp access to independent servers.

Philip