[rescue] Perverse Question

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Tue Jun 17 16:16:41 CDT 2003


 Mike Meredith said ...

> [That kind of big-pipe connectivity] might be relatively rare,
> but it isn't that exceptional. The
> university where I work is hardly the top of the pile, and the next
> university along the coast is having problems because their 1Gbps pipe
> is saturated.

With HTML spam, Kaaza/Gnutella/p2p, and "streaming media," I'll bet.  I
doubt the astronomy and physics department are flooding it with requests for
peer reviews of new findings.

That Sturgeon fellow, the one who said "90% of everything is crap," wasn't
watching a packetscope on the Internet.

-Shel



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