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RE: Stealth Blocking
- From: Roeland Meyer
- Date: Thu May 24 15:05:40 2001
> From: Eric A. Hall [mailto:ehall@ehsco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:03 AM
>
> > > The negative side effect is that it cripples people who use email
> > > as a file transfer protocol.
> >
> > Which I do, quite extensively. Transit providers shouldn't be doing
> > this.
>
> I agree. Access providers should be, however.
That depends on your definition of access provider. I would be livid, were
my upstream to do such traffic shaping on my feed. We would also be in court
for breach of contract. I buy bandwidth and IP space. I expect to get what I
pay for. I don't pay to have my traffic restricted by other than my pipe
size.
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