SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"

JC Dill nanog at vo.cnchost.com
Fri Feb 1 03:53:09 UTC 2002


On 02:18 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote:
 >
 >At 01:59 PM 1/31/02, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
 >
 >>On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
 >>
 >> > It doesn't make sense that an ISP should complain that customers use
 >> 100% of
 >> > what they pay for.
 >>
 >>So you think that dialup users should be allowed to stay online 24/7 for
 >>$20/month on an account advertised as unlimited?
 >
 >If not, then the use of the word "unlimited" is more than a bit misleading,
 >no? Be careful what you market, as people (and the FTC) will be happy to
 >hold you to your word.

So I take it that I get "unlimited" email storage disk space too?  And I 
can send or receive emails of any size?

No?  Hmmm.  I better get the FTC involved.

jc

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