Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:11:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, jamie@itribe.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: option MROUTING Message-ID: <199806252311.SAA07938@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199806242119.OAA16406@usr04.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:19:44 %2B0000 (GMT)) References: <199806242119.OAA16406@usr04.primenet.com>
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>> 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
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