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- From: landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
- Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,alt.folklore.computers,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 01:09:03 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
- Lines: 22
- Message-ID: <lfm5pfINNknc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Nov3.074706.526@news.columbia.edu>
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-
- > 2) What are the costs to send electronic mail messages and
- > data packets? And are there other costs?
-
- I was hoping someone would point out that those "other costs" are by
- far the largest. Blair Houghton did:
-
- The human resources are a combination of the administration
- of the networks, machines, and news software, and the time
- taken by participants to read and respond to the articles.
- This last element is easily the largest cost you'll ever
- encounter for the net.
-
- Mostly true, although "ever" is a long time ...
-
- > > That assumes you buy the disk space for each new message (say,
- > > by having /usr/spool/news on floppies? ;-)
- >
- > Imagine how long a Bnews expire would take with a full feed (one
- > week expire) on 360k floppies?
-
- Is that (360k) the actual number of floppy disks that you'd need?
- :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
-