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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:26:28 EST
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> In article <1826@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
> >  Because the "backbone cabal" PAYS for most of it. The user's organizations
> >do not.
> Uh uh, as I have pointed out several times before this isnt true everywhere.
> In the UK we share the cost between all the sites - perhaps its time something
> like that happened "over there". Remember USA != world (for the zillionth time)
> Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK

How do you handle the accounting for this?  And how do you enforce it?
This requires centralized administration (SOMEBODY has to compute the bills,
and collect them, and send rebates for long-distance calls, etc. etc.).
I really don't understand how this can work.
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