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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Who Pays?
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 12:56:40 EST
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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)
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