From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 2 11:11:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26957 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flubber.futurecomm.com (bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com [205.247.49.222]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26931 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:11:32 -0700 (PDT) From: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com Received: from localhost (bbecker@localhost) by flubber.futurecomm.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA02939; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:10:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:10:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Joseph McDonald cc: randy@rg.net, Dennis , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: Ethernet Bandwidth Manager In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Joseph McDonald wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 1996 randy@rg.net wrote: > > > We have a corporate policy of not doing business with folk who send junk > > email. We assume your lack of judgment and questionable ethics will not > > be limited to abuse of the net. > > As much as I hate spam, I have to disagree with this one. There have been > a number of requests in ISP-land on how to make a "bandwidth resistor", > now there is a solution, the solution was posted to a mailing list of > ISP's, not to individual accounts. You have a point, but i think he does too. The posting looked to me to be more of a sales-pitch than anything else. Ad copy doesn't belong in here, does it? Even the BSDI notes about new versions that you see here, don't sound like a straw-hat-and-cane routine. I'd prefer seeing pointers to ads as a result of someone asking a question. That gives everyone a choice. Bill