Re: "Tipster" voluntary payment protocol

2000-08-20 Thread Jeff Kandt
On or about 7:03 AM -0400 8/18/00, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: >I agree that making it easy is essential. But I still do not think >attaching all the info to the content is needed to make things easy. >First of all, there is no need to have the servers' keys attached. There are no keys attached

Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

2000-08-20 Thread James A. Donald
-- Ian Brown writes: > > ... subscribers to agree not to use the service as a means to create a VPN. At 10:52 PM 8/19/2000 -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Could someone describe to me (in my ignorance) the problem this rule is intended to solve? Sounds like a market differentiation tact

Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

2000-08-20 Thread Ben Laurie
Russell Nelson wrote: > > Ian Brown writes: > > ... subscribers to agree not to use the service as a means to create a VPN. > > Could someone describe to me (in my ignorance) the problem this rule > is intended to solve? Loss of revenue from leased lines. BT did a number of interesting things

Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

2000-08-20 Thread Jay D. Dyson
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: > > ... subscribers to agree not to use the service as a means to create a > > VPN. > > Could someone describe to me (in my ignorance) the problem this rule is > intended to solve? The only "problem" that this approach appears intended to "so