[132674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Nov 30 02:09:32 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhL8C5fg87UWziuNOOVHp7TBpy7kLx4Of-xVi6@mail.gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:09:02 -0500
To: Andrew Koch <andrew.koch@gawul.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Andrew Koch <andrew.koch@gawul.net> wrote=
:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 22:17, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>> So if we can't bill you by usage, and at a consumer level we can't,
>> then we have to find another way. Statistics and prayer isn't working
>> out as well as we'd hoped so we're looking at double-billing schemes.
>> Bad plan!
>
> If double billing is such a bad plan, what are your proposed alternatives=
?
Hi Andrew,
Back in the dialup days the solution was a single word: attended. The
$100 account was 24/7 and the $20 account was "unlimited attended
dialup." First month you got a warning so we could be sure you
understood that 24/7 was a different account. Second month was upgrade
or goodbye.
-Bill
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William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com=A0 bill@herrin.us
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