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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:33986 comp.sys.intel:31413 comp.unix.bsd:16107 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8138 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9216 comp.unix.misc:15973 comp.os.linux.development:23326 comp.os.linux.misc:35031 comp.os.386bsd.development:3165 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5309 comp.os.misc:3788 Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!news3.near.net!noc.near.net!monk.proteon.com!jfw From: jfw@proteon.com (John Woods) Subject: Re: X on dial-in Message-ID: <D3sMnw.8vE@proteon.com> Sender: news@proteon.com Nntp-Posting-Host: kerplop.proteon.com Organization: Proteon, Inc., Westborough, Ma. References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <3h4363$jqv@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> <D3LFnr.KJG@bonkers.taronga.com> <D3ME6C.14t@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D3ns6F.2w9@bonkers.taronga.com> <D3pF0z.1rq@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3hdf66$qfn@park.uvsc.edu> <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:47:56 GMT Lines: 27 rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes: >In <3hdf66$qfn@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: >>Consider: Are you charging per packet sent, OR per packet sent >>or recieved? >>If the latter, you pay for junk email. >>If the former or the latter, your email gate will want to charge >>you for packets attributable to your machine. >Now, you pay even for no mail at all! >Of course the calculation assumes that the cost for somebody who sends >IP packets only 10% of the time would be less than the cost for a fulltime >circuit. >You should not look at "what does this junk mail cost me" but at "what >does it cost me to be connected to the internet". Precisely. Because I (for example) have a flat rate Internet connection, I *know* what it cost me to be connected to the Internet this month. I *know* what it will cost next month. I *know* what it will cost a year from now, assuming my IP provider remains in business, and that the local telco doesn't change the ground rules. If I paid by the packet for sent and received data, I might pay less (my flat rate is pretty high), or I might pay more: even at $0.01 per minute, if my line were to stay busy all month (lots and lots and LOTS of junk email) I'd have a pretty frighteningly high bill. (And if I paid only for sent data, well, someone only has to ftp to my site and repeatedly take copies of some handy file to run up my bill.) No telco is likely to charge that little, so you have to count on light utilization.