Re: Bandwidth (Re: "Bouncer" script)

[Christian M. M. Brady]

Title: Re: Bandwidth (Re: "Bouncer" script)

On 3/19/02 11:50 AM, "Harry Zink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Can we really say that we are "wasting bandwidth" anymore?
>
> Yes, and it's that kind of mindset that contributes further to it.

That's right! It's this kind of mindset that leads to the degradation of all humanity, war in the middle east, poverty, teenage pregnancy.... Oh wait... ;-)

>> Seems to me that
>> bandwidth we have, space on my HD I may be low on or I may have too much
>> crap in my mailbox, but seems to me most folks have plenty of "bandwidth"
>> now.
>
> Available bandwidth is a finite amount - the more people waste it by filling
> up their netconnections with material and traffic that is not necessary, the
> less is available.
>
> It's already bad enough to have spammers send out these huge amounts of
> worthless and unneeded mail, but if you start bouncing mail back and forth
> into the nether lands, only to have it bounce back to you, you end up being
> no better than the original spammer - in fact, you are causing twice as much
> traffic that way.
>
> Something to think about.

It is, and the fact that we are not talking about the world's supply of oil, a non-renewable, organic material.  This is silly really, but I just wanted to be able to use up more bandwidth by writing this email (that, and making it HTML).

Now for the death threats to come rolling in...


Cb
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