From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail
Title: Re: The USENET corporation, a whole new way to run usenet
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2941
Posted: Fri Jan  7 11:30:23 1983
Received: Sat Jan  8 06:14:39 1983
Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
References: mcnc.1452

Actually, I think Tom is being overly negative.  CSNET could support
netnews on top of CSNET mail, because netnews can easily use mail as
a transport mechanism (using sendnews and uurec).  The main reason
why it isn't being done right now, as I understand it, is that the
phone bills are paid from some overhead source (rather than by the
sites receiving the news) and CSNET can't afford to pay for that kind
of volume.  Presumably when everybody pulls their own share it will
be feasable.

However, I don't see CSNET taking an active part in USENET in the
future, primarily because I have seen little or no interest in USENET
among the CSNET organizers.  Marvin Solomon seems interested but in
a low priority sense (and he certainly doesn't have time to do much
by himself.)  My impression is that the rest of the committee totally
ignores USENET.  This situation could, of course, change at any time
in the future.

As to the particular software, I'm not really familiar with MMDF or
PhoneNet, I just assume that ANYTHING has to be better than UUCP.
>From what I've heard, however, PhoneNet software has trouble with
the heavy loads generated by USENET.  What I suppose we really need
is for someone to implement TCP/IP over dialup phone lines (or at
least some reasonable subset of it assuming a dialer or a multiplexed
connection over one or more dialups or some such thing.)

	Mark Horton