----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Petach" <mpet...@netflight.com>
> He rants about Netflix generating huge amounts of traffic > and refusing to allow ISPs to cache it; and then goes on to > grumble that Netflix is trying to force them to host caching > boxes. Does he love caching, or hate caching? I really > can't tell. Netflix is offering to provide you the cache boxes > *for FREE* so that you can cache the data in your network; > isn't that exactly what he wanted, in his first sentence? > Why is it that two sentences later, free Netflix cache boxes > are suddenly an evil that must be avoided, no matter how > much Netflix may try to force them on you? > > I'm sorry. I think someone forgot to take their coherency > meds before writing that paragraph. > > If you like caching, you should be happy when someone > offers to give you caching boxes for FREE. If you don't > like caching, you shouldn't bitch about inefficient it is to > have traffic that isn't being cached. > > Trying to play both sides of the issue like that in the > same paragraph is just...dizzying. No; it's the common result of deciding that you know what the end game ought to be -- which end-game *you want* -- and then trying to fit the rhetoric underneath that result. Cognitive dissonance is a *bitch*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274