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In <1992Apr5.230954.14282@eskimo.celestial.com> 
	nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse) writes:


>     I know for a fact that there are several sites in Seattle that get their
>feeds over dedicated IP links.  That being the case, they aren't paying time
>charges to receive them.  I know further that they used to pass this material
>on regardless of how long they kept it locally.  But after Sumax's decision
>to censor it, they did likewise.

There are several different ways to account for the money spent on
a dedicated IP link.  One (old fashioned IMHO) way is to 'write off'
the cost of the link as overhead,  then there are no time charges to
account for.

A more modern and realistic way (again IMHO) is to pro-rate the cost
of the link and charge back to the users their fair share of the link.
One method of pro-rating the charges is by volume of traffic.  I, for
one, would not like to have to justify why I am carrying the additional
traffic of a.s.p or a.b.p.e.  Now if my boss asked for those groups.... :-)

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch and with ever tightening
budgets, I can sympathise with others decisions to drop some of the
high traffic *hard to justify* groups.

I, personally, would like to have the groups but don't wish to pay
anything for them, nor am I willing to ask others to pay for them
on my behalf.
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