On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 08:00, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > > Except, of course, people speeding causes other folks problems and > > danger; given the actual bandwidth, a *lot* of folks would have to run a > > *lot* of servers in order to inconvenience anybody else even a little, > > and that's apparently not happening. > > > > That is not true. The cable connection is very asynchronous, biased in the > download direction for a user (at least 5:1). Once that upload pipe fills > up, the download pipe will start to stall waiting for acks to be sent back > up. It only takes a [few] game server[s] and a porn or warez site to do > real damage in a neighborhood. > > You argument sounds a lot like a rationalization. Why would you say that? Sounds kind of passive-aggressive, no? > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------- > > There's a widow in sleepy Chester > > Who weeps for her only son; > > There's a grave on the Pabeng River, > > A grave that the Burmans shun, > > And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri > > Who tells how the work was done. > > ------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------