From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 14:20:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01789 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01601 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01634; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:19:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd001602; Wed Jun 24 14:19:48 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16406; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:19:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806242119.OAA16406@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: option MROUTING To: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org (Lyndon Nerenberg) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:19:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jamie@itribe.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806241724.LAA25068@ve7tcp.ampr.org> from "Lyndon Nerenberg" at Jun 24, 98 11:24:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Maybe I'm a bit dense, but I could never figure out where ISP's get off > trying to charge me for something that *reduces* their infrastructure > costs. Unless, maybe, they charge by the packet/byte and actually *want* > all those redundent unicast streams running up the meter :-( They are not charging for bandwidth usage. Charging for usage is quickly becoming computationationally hard (yea!). They are charging for having to hire soemone with more than an associates degree in CS from a community college; someone who didn't just go through the motions in college to get their "union card". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message