[51891] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Sep 9 18:41:44 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 00:41:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a05200515b9a2ced04a95@[146.106.12.76]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > Brad> No, the traffic budget is on upstream traffic, not
> > Brad> downstream. Stream content all you want, but don't try to
> > Brad> generate too much upstream traffic or you get your bandwidth
> > Brad> severely curtailed.
[The whole thing about port 80 upstream bandwidth limitations getting in
the way of streaming audio/video sounds like nonsense to me, since this
usually doesn't go _to_ TCP port 80, even flowing _from_ TCP port 80 is
something I haven't seen this century.]
> > good consumer... don't try to talk. just watch the propaganda...
> Yeah, well. For Internet cafe's, this is probably a fairly
> reasonable assumption.
Ok, suppose someone can touch type. The world record is something like 600
key presses per minute, which is 10 41-byte TCP packets per second ~= 4
kbps.
