Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.general Subject: Re: Usenet topology suboptimal - (nf) Message-ID: <2625@fortune.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 04:03:11 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2625 Posted: Sun Feb 26 04:03:11 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Feb-84 07:56:28 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 30 #R:wdl1:-17000:fortune:14500021:000:839 fortune!rpw3 Feb 25 21:25:00 1984 Look again at the phone charges listed in the front of your phone book. For inTERstate calls over about 200 miles, rates are nearly flat across the entire continental US ("contiguous 48"). We should indeed be optimizing number of hops, but NOT particularly distance (outside of the "local calling area"). The inTRAstate rates are not much lower. Late-night/weekend rates for each minute after the first from Palo Alto to: Berkeley, CA $0.08 Sacramento, CA $0.14 Reno, NV $0.16 Santa Barbara, CA $0.18 San Diego, CA $0.18 Denver, CO $0.18 Chicago, IL $0.18 Dallas,TX $0.18 Portland, ME $0.20 New York, NY $0.20 Atlanta, GA $0.20 Miami, FL $0.20 Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065