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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Topology, connectivity, and garbage
Message-ID: <830@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 14:03:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 14:03:11 1985
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References: <787@adobe.UUCP> <173@gould9.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <173@gould9.UUCP> joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
>
>It would help.  I'm not sure this isn't being done already.
>But if backbones are bitching about paying the feed for some groups,
>they should only feed those groups to "free" sites (ie, local or
>dedicated lines) and let their long-distance connections find
>another path to get net.flame.all.  Eventually, only the people
>who want to pay the bill would be paying for it.
>
	Actually this can be carried further, after all "local areras"
*overlap*, so it should be possible to develope a chain of local, or
at least low-cost zone, calls all the way across the country. Then
there would be little need for the expensive long distance calls at
all! Perhaps the European system of having the *recieving* site pay for
the news if it is sent over a long distance feed would be good.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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