Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site noscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!noscvax!cunningh From: cunningh@noscvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Usenet topology suboptimal Message-ID: <346@noscvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 23:25:34 EST Article-I.D.: noscvax.346 Posted: Fri Mar 2 23:25:34 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 04:39:33 EST References: <170@wdl1.UUCP> Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center Lines: 18 <> There are complex reasons why many sites do not extensively interconnect across-country. Part of the explanation lies in that there are are de-facto 'domains' within Usenet. Nonetheless, it would be useful if more sites realized that long-distance phone rates are not as distance-dependent as they used to be, and consider calling a selection of sites in very different localities. This would increase the interconnectivity of the net considerably, though, and could lead to some unanticipated changes in traffic (and some unanticipated phone bills). For sites outside of North America, the difference between calling one coast in NA vs. the other coast is almost insignificant compared to the trans-oceanic phone rates. It makes little difference, from their point of view, where in NA they call. -- Bob Cunningham (mail: ...vortex!islenet!bob)