[101633] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Jan 14 18:44:06 2008
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:43:12 -0500
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200801142225.m0EMPDEF019234@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> > So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP.
>
> The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet.
Joe,
The fat man is quite welcome at the buffet, especially if he brings
friends and tips well. That's the buffet's target market: folks who
aren't satisfied with a smaller portion.
The unwelcome guy is the smelly slob who spills half his food,
complains, spends most of 4 hours occupying the table yelling into a
cell phone (with food still in his mouth and in a foreign language to
boot), burps, farts, leaves no tip and generally makes the restaurant
an unpleasant place for anyone else to be.
> What exactly does this imply, though, from a networking point of view?
That the unpleasant nuisance who degrades everyone else's service and
bothers the staff gets encouraged to leave.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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