On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Yeah, well, what would ISPs prefer? That extra effort, or customers leaving in droves because they can't afford huge ADSL bills? The Internet worms aren't going to go away, ditto DoS attacks. If I thought they would, I'd sit tight and wait (with my modem turned off ;-)).
Looking at the figures on resource usages and costs vs margins and turnover for adsl users, my bet is that most ISP's wouldn't give two shits about them all leaving for a different product. One shit, maybe. Certainly half-a-shit. But not two. [1] Our beloved incumbent telco, however, might be worried. JSR -- John S Russell | "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to Operations Manager | spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and Attica/Callplus NZ | begin slitting throats." jsr(a)jsr.com | - H. L. Mencken --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog