Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:08:21 -0700 From: Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com> To: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@denverweb.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <3357FEE5.4DBB@eaznet.com> References: <199704181657.JAA02594@root.com> <3357A50E.3BE60349@denverweb.net>
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Blaine Minazzi wrote: > > David Greenman wrote: > > > 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. > > > > -DG > > > > David Greenman > > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > What does morality have to do with not pissing away bandwidth? > > So... leave the porn in, and risk a lawsuit. take it out and risk a > lawsuit. > Screw it, go with the low bandwidth solution. > > If the porn REALLY is 90% of usenet content, then we certainly need to > fix it. > > I don't buy the fact that our incomes would suffer greatly by simple > having the customer > fetch the stuff from smut_r_us.com rather than us having to store > hundreds of megs of > this shit on our servers, just so someone can get their rocks off. If I > want to make money > in that arena, I would open a strip club or adult bookstore. > > It is still available, we just dont shuffle a gazzillion megs of the > shit around daily. > Since most of it is the same "back issues" and same old files, it's > REALLY a bandwidth pisser. > > Economics is simple. You make the choices YOU think are most benificial > to the company. > You live with the results. > > Blaine I am in TOTAL agreement. I don't think anyone's going to lose customers because they don't keep this junk on a local drive. If anything, change your focus from "WE GIVE YOU EVERYTHING A SMUT-LOVER WOULD WANT" to "WE GIVE YOU FASTER ACCESS AND DOWNLOAD SPEEDS" because we don't jam our lines with smut. Eddie
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