Re: Phone calls by TCPIP

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From: Stephen Holmes
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 00:00

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In article <801188699snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
   Philip McNab <philip@siberia.demon.co.uk> writes:
>In article <3pqnr9$669@wpnext.wpine.com> carl@wpine.com "Carl Koppel" writes:
>
>> Check out http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu.  CU-SeeMe is public domain software
>>  which 
>> allows you to transmit both audio and video across the internet.
>
>This sounds to me like an abuse of internet bandwidth.
[snip]
>that Demon bans its customers from using this software -- so that there
>is some capacity left for the rest of us.

Quite a lot of ISPs already limit (good) or ban (better) the use of CU-SeeMe
as it virtually constitutes 'denial of service'. It is certainly banned by
Pipex and therefore, thankfully, by my ISP.

This issue came to the fore the weekend before last as an english university
somewhat inadvisedly had a 'TV station' live all day Saturday, and advertised
quite widely that people should get CU-SeeMe and join in the 'fun'.

Perhaps it could be used as a bandwidth tester for a new routing scheme...
-- 
Stephen Holmes                        "Socrates was a famous Greek teacher
work: s.holmes@blackburn.ac.uk         who went around giving people advice.
home: steve@blinkdog.airtime.co.uk     They killed him."

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From: steve@blinkdog.airtime.co.uk (Stephen Holmes)
Subject: Re: Phone calls by TCPIP
Date: 1995/05/24
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