[2664] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Request for Assistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postm)
Sun Apr 5 16:52:34 1992
From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <199204051355.AA07204@eff.org>
To: mkapor@eff.org (Mitch Kapor)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 13:51:14 -0700
I think it is worth briefly noting that, except in isolated cases, the
UUCP network does not engage in formal settlement agreements. Costs
are negotiated (if at all) on a per-connection basis, usually, who
calls whom, and at what times. This system works for nearly 30,000
systems around the world.
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
P.S. Just so there is no confusion, the UUCP network is the set of
all systems which speak UUCP to each other, and while that has
sizeable overlap with the USENET (the set of all sites which
exchange netnews with each other), they are not the same.
