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> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:52:15PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > providing me with news, since they need to get news to their > > news server. > > But if they charged me the full cost of 14Mbps, we simply wouldn't get > > a newsfeed from them, and they would have lost that business. > So you'd get your newsfeed from somebody else, transfer it across the > WAN, and get charged for it anyway. Hardly. We would have obtained our news feed from someone else who has a news server at a facility where we already colocate a router. But having this provider offer us a newsfeed at a fair price allowed us to save a cross-connect fee. DS
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