From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 16:12:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19219 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19061 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-49.camalott.com [208.229.74.49] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05813; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:10:47 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07938; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:11:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:11:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806252311.SAA07938@detlev.UUCP> To: tlambert@primenet.com CC: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, jamie@itribe.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199806242119.OAA16406@usr04.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:19:44 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: option MROUTING From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199806242119.OAA16406@usr04.primenet.com> 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". I would have guessed that they are charging on general "neat new technology" principles. Price is frequently unrelated to cost. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message