Re: Shady! in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r14775923 en Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:45:36 EDT Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:45:36 EDT Re: Shady! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14776220 nixen :
said by grumpygeek See Profile :

If a customer is going to run their cable modem at 100%, it's much better economically to have them pounding on your news servers than on your external connections.

But I can see a lot of ISP's being in an awkward place on this one. It's one thing to have a customer viewing web pages of atrocious stuff. It's quite another to have documented policies of how many days you cache alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen and dedicate support resources to it.
My provider, SpeakEasy, gets around that by simply providing a basic subscription to GigaNews. So, they don't have to dedicate support services or dodge the landmines of explaining retention policies.

-tom
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"Some people have morals, standards and ideals about quality, but I'm an American: I couldn't care less." --Tony Pierce (paraphrased)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14776220 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:49:05 EDT Re: Shady! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14775923 grumpygeek : If a customer is going to run their cable modem at 100%, it's much better economically to have them pounding on your news servers than on your external connections.

But I can see a lot of ISP's being in an awkward place on this one. It's one thing to have a customer viewing web pages of atrocious stuff. It's quite another to have documented policies of how many days you cache alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen and dedicate support resources to it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14775923 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:07:59 EDT Shady! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14773909 vincom1 : It's a cheap excuse to cut something they most likely did not want to continue the expense of operation. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14773909 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:23:07 EDT