FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

Matt Palmer mpalmer at hezmatt.org
Tue Jan 15 00:58:03 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:43:12PM -0500, William Herrin wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
> > > So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP.
> >
> > The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet.
> 
> The fat man is quite welcome at the buffet, especially if he brings
> friends and tips well. That's the buffet's target market: folks who
> aren't satisfied with a smaller portion.
> 
> The unwelcome guy is the smelly slob who spills half his food,
> complains, spends most of 4 hours occupying the table yelling into a
> cell phone (with food still in his mouth and in a foreign language to
> boot), burps, farts, leaves no tip and generally makes the restaurant
> an unpleasant place for anyone else to be.

However, if the sign on the door said "burping and farting welcome" and
"please don't tip your server", things are a bit different.  Similar
comparisons to use of the word "unlimited" apply.

> > What exactly does this imply, though, from a networking point of view?
> 
> That the unpleasant nuisance who degrades everyone else's service and
> bothers the staff gets encouraged to leave.

Until it is generally considered common courtesy (and recognised as such
in a future edition of "Miss Manners' Guide To The Intertubes") to not
download heavily for fear of upsetting your virtual neighbours, it's
reasonable that not specifically informing people that their "unpleasant"
behaviour is unwelcome should imply that such behaviour is acceptable.

- Matt



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