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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:52:55 +0100, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@TROUSERSspamcop.net> wrote in
<rfo6k.188957$6i4.132499@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com>:

>John Navas wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:05 -0700, John Higdon
>> <HisRoyalRadioHigness@kome.com> wrote in
>> <HisRoyalRadioHigness-5BE3A3.09460518062008@news.announcetech.com>:
>> 
>>> In article <819i545fe2h55o2p71gfhoul5ois99ut4l@4ax.com>,
>>> John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I seriously doubt that.  The "caps" being considered are in the GIGAbyte
>>>> range of broadband, not the MEGAbyte range of dialup.  Like most people
>>>> I'm not even close to that level of transfer.  
>>> And if you don't need it, no one does. I understand.
>> 
>> What part of "most people" was unclear?  ;)
>
>The part where you produced some evidence that "most people" only 
>generated hundreds of megs of monthly traffic?  :-)

The evidence is readily available, as I'm sure you know.  :-)

>>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "things the Internet promised" -- do you?
>>>> -- but I don't see any real risk to anything other than massive
>>>> audio/video downloading, which is NOT what the Internet was built for.
>>> Could you direct me to a reference which outlines "what the Internet was 
>>> built for"? I had always mistakenly assumed that it was a dumb network 
>>> whose usage was limited only by the imagination of those utilizing it.
>> 
>> There are ample references to the fact that multicasting wasn't a
>> consideration in the original design of TCP/IP, on which the Internet is
>> based, as I'm sure you know.
>
>I'm unclear as to how this answers the question.

Why am I not surprised.

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