[18983] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Aug 24 17:50:50 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:22:52 -0400
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980824131651.23737E-100000@ruby.he.net>
At 01:33 PM 08/24/1998 -0700, Mike Leber wrote:
>You appear to be missing the point that there are perfect legitimate and
>non fraudulent ways of increasing the amount of traffic generated.
>...
>It really is only limited by your imagination. You can generate
>legitimate, non fraudulent traffic in either direction in any quantity
>desired.
Mike,
If both ends are paying for this traffic and the receivers
continue to participate, then they must find it worthwhile.
/John
