Naw, the Internet can not be "read only". For every consumer, there must be a provider. For every download, there is an upload somewhere else. The internet IS synchrounous when taken as a whole. Hey, I just extended the conservation of energy theory to the Internet! Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy.A Johnson" <troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] DNS Question! > True enough. Cable is for users, not servers. > > I have problem with the idea of accepting/ > promoting the Internet as a new kind of > "Television": all one way and read only. > Another we'll-provide-the-programming-you- > just-sit-back-and-watch-it medium. Lame. > > Sorry for going off half cocked. > > Troy > > >>> veldy at veldy.net 01/17/02 07:54AM >>> > I can't blame the guy. The AUP suggests that you can't run servers. People > that run servers, often pull way to much upstream bandwidth at the expense > of other people on their node. Why should he have to suffer slowdowns > because another user is breaking the AUP and getting away with it. If you > want to run a web server get a hosting company to do it or get another > technology for you to deliver your product. Cable is for users, not > servers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >