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From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Aside from all of the business and legal sticking points that others have mentioned, there are also the technical aspects of capturing, storing, transporting, analyzing, and managing those packets, and the appliances that do the heavy lifting. As your traffic grows, that problem scales 1:1 linearly, at best, and more likely n:1 linearly, or worse. The added overhead of the infrastructure needed to support this will also make it more difficult to be price-competitive with your peers.
TL:DR; The reasons for doing this on any kind of general basis have to be *EXCEPTIONALLY* compelling to make a business case for it, apart from any possible legal ramifications. I used asterisks *and* capital letters; that's about an order of magnitude. Don't forget staffing. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274