ag> march 1st was my official "pull the plug" on the int'l link
 ag> to the UK (why should i pay to ship our msgs to Z2 and have
 ag> none return :-()

 ag> if you can re-establish the link you are welcome..

 PE> Well I certainly won't be paying to not get anything from
 PE> the UK.  Who was the UK contact node?  I'll netmail him to

i can't recall anymore.. :-(

but we may soon have a new link to the UK. John Fisher has recently
re-established the UK_OZ echo to the UK and i've asked if he would consider
establishing the link to UK for BLAKES_7 echo using his already existing
UK_OZ path..

will keep you informed

 PE> find out if there is any traffic there any more.  How much
 PE> did it cost you on average per month to send the mail?  Who
 PE> should I approach at getting the link reestablished under
 PE> my sponsorship?  The zonegate?  The names you mentioned
 PE> weren't the zonegate.  BFN.

the cheapest is via using a pre-existing UK--OZ path that way the costs of
"connection/call negotiation" etc are already catered for by the
pre-existing path.. costs are then basicly just the transfer costs

my estimates were at about $1/week which was very conservative considering
the actual amount of data transfered..

to establish the link yourself.. you would probally be looking at about $1
to $2 per call (i wouldn't expect one to be online longer than 2 minutes)

i initially paid $50 for ian and lee to import it with UK_OZ.. when i cut
the link i told lee she can use what evers left over for UK_OZ importing 

all up we had about 20-30k of traffic/week, at 14.4k thats about
$0.40c/week overhead on the existing UK_OZ link

ag

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