Amish Munshi amish_munshi@fastmail.fm wrote: __________
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:01 +0530, Rishi wrote:
Hi Guys (Moderators)
I know Google Groups 2 is in beta right now... but would you guys (moderators) consider moving this ILUG Mailing list from your site to Google Groups when it is officially release it bug free?
I know that my reason is not practical, but on paper this stays true. """"Why should all of us user servers located in US to send and receive mails? If we have a mailing list mail server located in India, we live in India, and our personal mail servers (hopefully) are in India. Why should we waste international bandwidth on this?"""
ha ! Here is the catch and joke.
First indian servers are expensive. Due to high local bandwidth costs, servers in india cost 3 times of that in USA.
More important, even if you have indian servers and an indian ISP, you use international bandwidth. Last I checked a month ago, no ISP in india provided interconnect to each other. So, you use siffy at home to connect to vsnl email accounts at bom4 server in mumbai, your data goes through some gateway in USA bcause vsnl and siffy refuse to interconnect.
I don't know whose fault it is, but I have been told govt is planning to force large ISPs to interconnect here.
Regards saswata