Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)

[Andre Ludwig <andre.ludwig () gmail com>]

Yeah i caught that one as well...

I say go for it (double charge everyone), i need a good reason to
create some disruptive technology.. how about you guys?

dre


On 1/17/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> There's been an ginormous amount of discussion about this
> over on the NANOG mailing list when it became first know
> that BellSouth was thinking about doing this:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002109.html
>
> My opinion: It's utterly stupid. And if they move in this direction
> it will probably come back and bite them hard.
>
> $.02,
>
> - ferg
>
>
> -- Andre Ludwig <andre.ludwig () gmail com> wrote:
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/06/01/17/1424212.shtml
>
> cracks me up... so they want to people to pay for quality of their
> network (dont use their network then, they arent fen uunet or
> anything)?
>
> Fine, fuck em sideways with a telephone pole... route around them and
> watch their customer base drop from underneath their feet.
>
> Any other comments? (lots of issues are raised by this "idea")
>
> Worm traffic? (who pays)
> Spam traffic? (who pays)
> DDoS effects (who pays)
> dont we already pay for certain speeds from our providers who in turn
> pay others for their access?
> and the list goes on and on...
>
> Thoughts? Grips? Comments?
>
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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