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Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Sun Mar 30 04:15:07 2003

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 01:12:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: Tony Rall <trall@almaden.ibm.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0303302051070.23818-100000@boggle.ihug.co.nz>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Simon Lyall wrote:
> Banning NAT and servers is a simple way to filter out most of the "power
> users" without scaring the "mom and pop" customers with bandwidth and
> download quotas.

Hardly. Banning NAT doesn't filter out anyone. There are plenty of "power 
users" without NAT.

Instead of using dishonest marketing, just explicitly ban bandwidth hog 
stuff like p2p services up front...

-Dan
-- 
[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]


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