[45382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Mehl)
Thu Jan 31 18:13:04 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:58:58 -0500
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.41.0201311358140.28090-100000@amethyst.nstc.com>; from sjsobol@JustThe.net on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:59:06PM -0500
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In the immortal words of Steven J. Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net):
>
> So you think that dialup users should be allowed to stay online 24/7 for
> $20/month on an account advertised as unlimited?
The Federal Trade Commission (and possibly your local district
attorney) will certainly think so, unless your service contracts
contain a novel redefinition of the word "unlimited."
(This is, I suspect, why most of them do just that.)
-n
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