24 Aug
1998
24 Aug
'98
5:14 p.m.
At 01:49 PM 08/24/1998 -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
Are you saying that someone should be forced to pay for the privilege of offering something for free to your customers? Things that your customers, who I number among are requesting?
There's no way to know what is being offered "for free", "in exchange for ads", "due to a credit card transaction", etc. It's all just traffic. Customers who receive traffic currently bear some of the costs and the sending customer bears some of the costs. In the case of an off-net sender with shortest-exit routing and no offsetting traffic in the other direction, the receiving customer ends up bearing all of the costs. /John