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- From: dean@coplex.com (Dean Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Affordable UUCP/USENET for BBS operartors
- Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:17:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.041748.3222@coplex.com>
- References: <BzB0KL.33z@cscns.com> <wBwXVB17w165w@west.darkside.com> <1992Dec20.091340.13593@jack.sns.com>
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- steve@jack.sns.com (J. Steven Harrison) writes:
-
- >I offer a free service to those that wish to use it which I believe for what
- >it is intended to do is as reliable as any other service around (note I said
- >for what it was intended to do). I have been runinng uucp sites now since
- >1980 and (and I REPEAT AGAIN) still believe they should be free.
-
- The information flowing through UUCP sites *is* free. However, the
- medium of transport for uucp (primarily voice grade telephone lines)
- is not free - it costs *real* money to *real* people and businesses.
-
- Our company spends approx $12000.00 a year in telephone costs for
- uucp access. We help defray the costs a bit by charging other sites
- for news feeds. Why should we give feeds out for free? If we don't charge
- for feeds, *WE* don't get a feed.
-
- Sure, we could pick up a second rate feed from someone for much less
- but reliability is more important than volume by far. A usenet feed
- is worthless (imo) if its unreliable.
-
- Hence the point of my response: If uucp feeds were *all* free, no one
- could afford the fricking telco charges and the flow of information
- would be greatly restricted.
-
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