[news.admin] EUnet: Whatever it is, it isn't USENET

obrien@aerospace.aero.org (Mike O'Brien) (07/11/89)

The most recent message from Michael Pickers rang a strong bell
for me.  I helped build CSNET, practically from its inception.
And the environment and customer expectations described by Herr
Pickers sure sound a lot more like CSNET than they sound like
USENET.  Those who think EUnet is violating the "unwritten rules
of USENET" are using the wrong model to describe what the folks
at unido should or shouldn't be doing.

I can't compare unido's operation with that of UUNET since I've
never stood in Rick Adams' shoes, but I'll bet he also recognized
the symptoms Herr Pickers describes.

Apparently the folks in .de-land prefer the CSNET cost model
to the USENET cost model, except for the small sites.  Those folks
do sound like they're out of luck unless they can either band
together on their own, or find another route across the pond.



--
Mike O'Brien
obrien@aerospace.aero.org
trwrb!aero!obrien

karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (07/14/89)

obrien@aerospace.aero.org writes:
   Those folks
   do sound like they're out of luck unless they can either band
   together on their own, or find another route across the pond.

Some of them have just done both.  Domain registrations are in-progress.

--Karl