I think it would be more on topic if everyone weren't just guessing what users will do based on hypothetical behavior patterns and hypothetical content shifts.
I WOULD be interested to see some data showing e.g. a drop in traffic to one service and a boost in traffic to another service when a particular bit of media was moved from the former to the latter. (Or a boost in both, etc.) On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 11:04 AM Stephen Satchell <l...@satchell.net> wrote: > CAVAET: I don't have a dog in this hunt. > > On 11/13/19 6:46 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > This is silly off-topic. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t > > stay here, according to NANOG guidelines. > > > https://www.nanog.org/resources/usage-guidelines/ > > https://www.nanog.org/bylaws/ > > "The NANOG mailing list was established in 1994 to provide an open forum > for the exchange of technical information, and lively discussion of > SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES (emphasis mine) that require > cooperation among network service providers. > > "Posts to NANOG’s mailing list should be focused on operational and > technical content only, as described by the NANOG Bylaws." > > Yes, some of the Disney Plus thread has strayed outside the four corners > of the rules of the mailing list, but the bulk of the thread has to do > with two things: geolocation inaccuracies, and traffic capacity shifts. > For some network operators on this list, the discussion does not > describe issues on their networks. But "some" is not "all". >