Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-15 Thread Jason Frisvold
On 1/14/07, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your assumption is incorrect. These DNSBLs cover spam sent in email, indeed. Thing is, spam is spam and spammers are spammers. Meaning, they spam in every way they can. How does this make his assumption incorrect? Spam is spam and DNSBLs will

Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-15 Thread Deepak Jain
If you allow anonymous, unauthenticated access to any system it will be abused. Auctions, blogs, chat, mail, phone, etc. IP addresses have never been good authenticators for applications. This is not true if you control the IP address space and the routers around it. I mention this merely b

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Gian Constantine
The changes in network news have little to do with consumer tendencies or entrenched content provider culture. News departments have operated at a financial loss for many many years. The big networks supported news as a service to the public, not as a moneymaker. Furthermore, the internet h

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Richard Naylor
At 09:50 a.m. 15/01/2007 -0500, Gian Constantine wrote: The problem with this all (or mostly) VoD model is the entrenched culture. In countries outside of the U.S. with smaller channel lineups, an all VoD model might be easier to migrate to over time. In the U.S., where we have 200+ channel li

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Israel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bora Akyol wrote: > > The question I asked earlier was, whether the last-mile SP networks > can handle 24x7 100% link utilization for all of their customers. I > don't think they can. And frankly, I don't know how they are going > to get revenue from

RE: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Bora Akyol
Steve That's mostly because the DVR boxes given by the cable companies (mine is a Moto from Comcast) are terrible. The UI just plain is unusable esp for on-demand portion of the DVR guide. I have caught up with the thread this morning and I have to say, I don't understand why people think of vid

Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-15 Thread Ian Mason
On 15 Jan 2007, at 00:43, Sean Donelan wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Tony Finch wrote: I would expect the lists of compromised hosts to be fairly effective - open proxies of various kinds and perhaps botnet hosts. As for SMTP the blacklists would only be a starting point that either provid

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Gian Constantine
The problem with this all (or mostly) VoD model is the entrenched culture. In countries outside of the U.S. with smaller channel lineups, an all VoD model might be easier to migrate to over time. In the U.S., where we have 200+ channel lineups, consumers have become accustomed to the massiv

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15-Jan-2007, at 08:48, Michal Krsek wrote: This system works perfectly in our linear-line distribution (channels). As user you can choose time you want to see the show, but not the show itself. Capacity on PVR device is finite and if you don't want to waste the space with any broadcast

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Michal Krsek
I am pretty sure we are not becoming a VoD world. Linear programming is much better for advertisers. I do not think content providers, nor consumers, would prefer a VoD only service. A handful of consumers would love it, but many would not. There are already cheap and efficient ways of doin

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Andy Davidson
On 12 Jan 2007, at 15:26, Gian Constantine wrote: I am pretty sure we are not becoming a VoD world. Linear programming is much better for advertisers. I do not think content providers, nor consumers, would prefer a VoD only service. A handful of consumers would love it, but many would not