Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:19:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org (Lyndon Nerenberg) Cc: jamie@itribe.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: option MROUTING Message-ID: <199806242119.OAA16406@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806241724.LAA25068@ve7tcp.ampr.org> from "Lyndon Nerenberg" at Jun 24, 98 11:24:27 am
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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". 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
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