At 03:43 PM 3/28/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>Punishing a corporation by a lawsuit is an illusion.  Some lawyers
>get a windfall, and rates go up for customers to pay for the judgement.
>Guess you could fine all employees a week's pay -- that might be
>a suitable punishment for bad decisions.

I tend to think that punitive damages in a lawsuit work, but that's just me. :)

>Seems sensible to me to charge more for the additional bandwith use
>if someone wants to run a server.

I agree. If you get a consumer service and the ISP blocks web serving and 
so forth then I don't see an issue. If you want to run a service that could 
potentially use up the full bandwidth 24x7 then get a higher grade of service.

>Of course there is always DSL if you live in town.

True. I keep hearing though that BellSouth is thinking of blocking certain 
ports. I wonder how true this is?


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