[19066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Aug 25 19:53:44 1998
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
cc: rirving@onecall.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:48:29 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:46:58 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"Sean M. Doran" writes:
> Dear ISP - you have made an accounting error that I am able to demonstrate
> in my copious traffic logs. Please credit $x to my account.
>
> or
>
> Dear Customer - our copious traffic logs indicate that you generated x traffi
c
> last month. Please pay $x net 30 days. Thank you.
>
> Dispute resolution -- it's fun!
And *extremely* expensive in manpower. Transaction costs cannot be ignored.
Perry
