Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen 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 Article-I.D.: psivax.830 Posted: Mon Nov 4 14:03:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:21:04 EST References: <787@adobe.UUCP> <173@gould9.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 21 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) UUCP: {ttidca|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|quad1|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!friesen ARPA: ttidca!psivax!friesen@rand-unix.arpa