Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ukc!mjb From: mjb@ukc.UUCP (M.J.Bayliss) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: The poster should pay for news Message-ID: <3884@ukc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 10:25:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.3884 Posted: Mon Jul 25 10:25:33 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 02:15:10 EDT References: <5574@watmath.UUCP> <796@utcsstat.UUCP> Organization: Computing Lab. Kent University, England Lines: 26 For what it's worth, here is what we plan to do in the UK over news costs: i) the main trans-atlantic and european feeds will be via ukc (with edcaad as a backup if ukc falls apart), thus the only site getting the large costs will be ukc, and these costs will be split equally among all sites on the network in the UK. (problem, this is still a high cost for each site, we need to expand the network here to four times its size to get a reasonable charge for each site.) ii) any other link is negotation between the sites involved, with the expectation that charges will be paid by sites receiving the news. (currently traffic flow is mainly one way, when this changes, we will probably have to rethink all our costing plans.) iii) sites tend to cover their capital costs by charging connection fees for each site that links into them, and this includes making sure the new site has upto date s/w, and knows what they are doing. Also if a site is handling a large load, there is nothing stopping them making a monthly service charge to adjacent sites which is how some sites cover their running costs. Mike Bayliss University of Kent, UK ...!{vax135,mcvax}!ukc!mjb