Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Who Pays? Message-ID: <293@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 12:56:40 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.293 Posted: Sat Nov 2 12:56:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:10:10 EST References: <244@stl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 18 If all the readers and posters of news were to contribute a small % of their salary, or even contribute some of their salary according to how much of USENET they actually use, I think the backbones would be able to alleviate the cost of news somewhat. This doesn't handle the postings from other sites so much -- let's say utzoo has few readers and posters and the contributions from them do not offset the cost of shipping other sites' news around by much. I don't want to get into a debate of sites charging other sites to ship their news around, because it is true that this is an accounting nightmare. But it might be possible for sites to help contribute to backbones' overload by calling the backbones for non-technical groups they want to receive and send, with business as usual for technical groups. -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@mit-eddie.mit.edu