[7876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big providers use NAT to squeeze little ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Wed Feb 26 21:33:48 1997
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
To: alan@mindvision.com
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:04:42 -0600 (CST)
Cc: karl@Mcs.Net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199702270103.TAA08019@anka.mindvision.com> from "Alan Hannan" at Feb 26, 97 07:03:33 pm
Keep the ad-hominen and invective out of the discussion.
I will return to talk about this when you have restarted your question with
an understanding of the above.
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>
> Karl,
>
> Will you please explain to me how it is that the evil greedy
> conspiring bastards use their size dishonestly to slant the
> playing field? Please list the set of differentiated dishonest
> benefits.
>
> Besides, I was always under the impression that it wasn't the size
> of the money that mattered, but rather how you moved it.
>
> -alan
>
> > > Karl,
> > >
> > > Sometimes I think you work for the Yoyodyne Corporation
> > > from some movie or another.
> > >
> > > Tell you what.
> > >
> > > You watch the capitalist system of our country reward
> > > companies that utilize new technology to encourage better service.
> >
> > I happen to like that model. A lot.
> >
> > The problem is, lots of people like to slant the playing field so that only
> > the guys on the top of the money pile can play in the same theatre, and
> > everyone else is relegated to the bottom.
> >
> > There are some benefits of size that really are honestly earned. Then there
> > are those which are just plain improper (at minimum).
> >
> > The trick is to differentiate between them.
>
