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Subject: Re: PointCast
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson @ cisco . com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:14:17 -0400
To: Peter da Silva <peter @ baileynm . com>
Cc: stoutb @ pios . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9709201511 . AA09718 @ baileynm . com>
References: <3 . 0 . 3 . 32 . 19970919235747 . 006ead08 @ lint . cisco . com>

At 10:11 AM 9/20/97 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:

>> The best approach to handling Pointcast users within
>> the same administrative domain is to simply put a
>> Pointcast server on the transit path which intercepts
>> all clients traffic. Instead of having 100,000 Pointcast
>> flows which traverse your Internet gateway, you can limit
>> it to one (1) and efficiently use your bandwidth.
>
>So we have to pay extra money to support Pointcast's advertising revenues?
>

Your choice. I was considering efficient use of network
resources, not political or socioeconomic issues.

>How does this differ from what spammers are doing to us?
>

It's like night and day, and this isn't the forum for
discussing it.

- paul


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