[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 19:35 on 10/09/98
about "RE: [bhia-g] NHSnet & newsgroups":
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>The only potential bummer is the provision in the NHSnet contract for
BT
>Syntegra to charge the *recipient* for passing them email originating
>outside NHSnet, ie. non X400 email which the company won't have been
able to
>charge the sender for. Imagine having to pay for a box full of
bletherings.
>
>But this charging arrangement is not in place yet, and may well never
be (so
>I'm told).
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Yesterday the assistant director for telecoms for the NHSE expressed
his view that this arrangement should not occur, at Stratford at the
Practice Computing "Computers for the Rest of Us" meeting.
(I had immediately before expressed the same opinion, but his may
count<g>)
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