[53041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Oct 28 12:46:32 2002
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:05:44 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:45:14 -0500
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:05:44 EST, alex@yuriev.com said:
> They take a total revenue that's somehow gets associated with selling cable
> and divide it by the price of the basic cable. The resulting number is the
> number of subscribers that they claim to have.
This of course is perfectly fine, as long as all subscribers are only paying
the basic rate. Adjusting for the number of people who pay for premium services
such as movie packages or cable-internet services without knowing the number
of people that have that package is left as an exercise for the auditors and/or
prosecutors... ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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