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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: single to multiple IP address mapping
Date: 16 Oct 1996 00:16:33 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <3262950C.5851C774@lambert.org>,
Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
: E. Jason Scheck wrote:
: ] How could you possibly know the details of the contract that
: ] he has with his ISP? In particular, I've never heard of a
: ] "per-user" ISP license. Why should the ISP care how many
: ] users use a connection; they only care about bandwidth. (Yes,
: ] I know, I'm assuming that the world is logical; it is a fault
: ] of mine).
:
: They care about address space too, or everyone would have an
: assigned IP address, not that this has much to do with the
: current discussion.
[.....]
: Feel free to act as your conscience directs, but note that your
: short term gain will result in long term losses for everyone
: (at the very least, normal users will have to bear their share
: of the usage monitoring costs to trap abusers like you, and that
: will increase what they have to pay the ISP, with no increase
: in benefit to themselves).
Yep, that's what I meant ! Keep with the "spirit" :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.