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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
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 10:25:33 1983
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Organization: Computing Lab. Kent University, England
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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
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