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From: cc-06@ucbcory.BERKELEY.EDU (Ilya Goldberg)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Saving the net
Message-ID: <10940@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 00:47:16 EST
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Keywords: money, fairness, priorities

In article <239@ll-xn.ARPA> glenn@ll-xn.ARPA (Glenn Adams) writes:
>What would seem desirable is a means for communicating between backbone
>hosts other than by using phone service.  For example, a few sites inter-
>connected via the ARPANet could greatly reduce this expense.  Our site
>currently uses TCP/IP for incoming and outgoing news using the DOD Internet
>as the medium.  A few well placed hosts homed to both the Internet and
>USENET could go a long way in reducing some of the major long distance
>tolls between backbone sites.
>-- 
>
>Glenn Adams
>MIT Lincoln Laboratory

	The DOD people just might have something to say about that -
after all, ARPANet is not free either.  Maybe some sort of a priority
scheme would be in order.  That way the DOD would still get all of their
traffic thru in the same amount of time while any 'unused connect time'
could be utilized for news.  Same goes for backbone sites that can't
afford the cputime for news, why not just run the news software at
a lower priority or only at night?

					Ilya	(..!ucbvax!ilya)