On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 04:14:48PM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > It's been discussed before
>
> Do you remember where this has been discussed, and who proposed this
> kinds of ideas?
Vaguely. (Hey, I've had a long day. My brain is tired.) Most likely
candidates: check the archives of the com-priv and inet-access mailing
lists, which are the two places that I recall seeing this debated
at length. I don't recall any mailing list dedicated solely to this
topic, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't one.
BTW, metered networks are out there - but most organizations are abandoning
them in droves in favor of the 'net. In other words, they're switching
from private networks where they pay by the drink to Virtual Private
Networks (VPN) where they pay flat-rate. (I'm horribly generalizing
here, I know, but the point I'm trying to get across is that the world
seems to be moving *away* from metered service, not toward it.)
BTW #2: one of the problems with doing this is that the expense of
doing so may exceed the revenues thus derived.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org
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