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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: "FREE"dom of the net is costing over $600,000 this year
Message-ID: <201@looking.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 00:00:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: looking.201
Posted: Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 03:30:26 EDT
Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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(reposted due to complaints of truncation)
Here's an interesting figure:

Netnews is now running around 500 K bytes per day, according to statistics
from siesmo.  With 1200 baud modems and 100 bytes/sec throughput, that's
83.3 minutes per day sending news.

Now there are over 1000 links on the net, so it's fair to say there are
probably 100 long distance or other paid carrier links.  Let's also cost
these links at the average after midnight cost of $0.20 per minute from AT&T.
In fact, many of these links run in the day, and some are also running on
cheaper carriers.

But if these figures are near to target the net is costing $600,000 per
year now, and probably more.  Whose money?  Your company's probably.  Your
employer who doesn't know he's paying the money because if you told him
the net would get cut off.  DEC.  Allegra.  (some of it just cycles within
AT&T but that still costs by upping phone bills)  Various places.

Keep this in mind when you next talk about your RIGHT to post to the net.
Think about it when you talk about fascism and the evil of moderators.
When you defend Tim Maroney's RIGHT to post.  Keep it in mind.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473