From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 18 11:54:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25417 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe.cablenet.net (axe.cablenet.net [194.154.36.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA25348 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axe.cablenet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA05665; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:50:34 +0100 Message-ID: <3357C27A.63DECDAD@cablenet.net> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:50:34 +0100 From: Damian Hamill Organization: CableNet Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... References: <199704181657.JAA02594@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > I must be seriously missing something here. I thought ISPs were in business > to make money? It seems to me that if you make more money by providing all of > the content of Usenet (WHATEVER that might be), then that's what you should > do. If you chose to chop out 90% of the Usenet content with full knowledge > that you will lose customers and make less money, than that's just being a > morality Czar and has nothing to do with the economics. One of the principle costs in running an ISP is the cost of bandwidth. Usenet is a big hit on bandwidth, the cost of which is disproportionate to the revenue generated from those that actually use it. Anything which can reduce this major cost centre will be beneficial to ALL ISPs, regardless of size. There just isn't enough bandwidth... ever... > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project regards damian -- * PIAB - PoP In A Box - the total solution for ISPs, with more features * than a Constable landscape, and very cheap too!! * http://www.cablenet.net/cablenet/popinabox/ * Damian Hamill damian@cablenet.net