[geeks] testing

Brian bri at sonicboom.org
Wed Jun 9 17:57:16 CDT 2004


In the world of dialup, the top 5% of your users use a majority of your 
resources, they are much more expensive than the cost.  using irc or other 
tools to keep lines up for days..


 	Brian

The path to a desireable destination 
is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Kevin wrote:

> My buddy and i both I got several these "warnings" from
> Mindspring back in the late 90s.  In our case though they were
> not warnings but rather just complaints from the ISP.  According
> to their policies they could do nothing about it, at least at the
> time.  I'm sure things are different these days.
>
> /KRM
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:38:44 -0500
> Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
>>
>> If we had people pegging a dialup line (this was '98) and
>> staying connected 24/7, we'd give them a warning or two, and
>> after that tell them to either curtail their usage or change to
>> a dedicated dialup connection (which was only $20 or so more
>> than the normal fee).
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