Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 00:09:53 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Act Now ! Message-ID: <199603070809.AAA10784@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 23:21:14 PST." <18826.826183274@time.cdrom.com>
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Your worst internet bandwith polluter is Win95 8) Voice data streams tend to be relatively low bandwith compared to lets say net browsing or downloading images. What is good in the sense of net bandwith misuse with respect to audio is that if the network is not fast people get to be very annoyed at the audio effects 8) Amancio >>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > I guess politics is part of the package when the Internet is so much > > on the spotlight :( > > I think this actually belongs in FreeBSD-chat, given that it's a > purely political issue with no clear "right side." > > Sure, we don't want people regulating the kind of data we can send > over the internet, but at the same time I hardly want the backbone > saturated with a million teen-age Windows users who are using IPHONE > to get around long-distance rates and have marathon phone > conversations about dating or whether DETHMETAL is a better group than > EARSLAYER. That would be an utter catastrophy, and if you think that > network response is bad now, well you ain't seen nothing yet! > > Given a choice over supporting the authors of VON software or > preserving some modicum of interactive response for our developers who > only want their keystrokes to come back on the same day they type > them, well, it's pretty hard to say. This isn't the CDA again, this > is a lot of people trying to get something for nothing. > > Either way, it's political and not technical, so please redirect to > chat, thanks! > > Jordan
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