Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!emigh From: emigh@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Cost of News Articles Message-ID: <3317@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 10:30:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3317 Posted: Fri Sep 28 10:30:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:22:29 EDT Lines: 19 <> One reason why people keep sending car-for-sale articles to net.general, etc is that there are no costs (essentially) to the submitter. The cost is paid by all the sites that pass on the message via long distance. **MY QUESTION** Has anyone ever calculated how much it costs the various sites on the net to pass a 1K article in, say, net.general, or net.micro, or ...? It may be useful to have this information passed on to new users: "Submitting an article to the worldwide USENET costs $$$$/1K characters." It may actually curb the abuses (well, maybe not...) -- Ted H. Emigh Genetics and Statistics, North Carolina State U, Raleigh NC USENET: {akgua decvax duke ihnp4 unc}!mcnc!ecsvax!emigh ARPA: decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!emigh@BERKELEY