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Re: mailing list vs "the futur"



The Wanderer writes:
> If the user chooses a provider which carries those groups, and chooses
> to subscribe to one or more of them, then surely that is what that
> user is choosing to do with the bandwidth which that user purchases
> from that user's provider - and as long as the user's bandwidth limits
> are not exceeded, surely it's none of the provider's business what is
> transported over that bandwidth.

For marketing reasons they like to advertise very high bandwidth, beyond
what they can actually support on shared channels, and then block
potentially high-bandwidth services that most of their customers will
never use and therefor never miss.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA


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