Larry J. Plato put this into my mailbox:
My first thought was this would be a disadvantage, since most users have no clue about the working of the net, but they know that application <bandwidth hog> 'runs faster' than application <net friendly>.
Speaking of such people, does anyone know if there's any sort of campaign to educate the general masses on how the net works, in laymans' terms? In an attempt to explain why Internet connectivity hasn't been great and why connections around DALnet are lagged, I put together an explanation that analogizes the Internet to a series of roads, trying to include what happens when it jams up, how traffic transfers across the 'net, etc. For most people, this was their first real explanation of 'the information superhighway'. I still get reports of people passing it around to their friends. It strikes me that if one wants a campaign to get developers to make bandwidth-friendly applications to succeed, there must also be another campaign to inform users exactly *why* bandwidth must be conserved. I've also found that, if given a reasonable explanation as to why something should be a certain way, most people will comply instead of doing their own thing. It helps to explain what's going on. -dalvenjah Dalvenjah FoxFire, the Teddy Dragon (also known as Sven Nielsen to some :) dalvenjah@dal.net --- dalvenjah on IRC Remember: if you're not on DALnet, you're on the wrong IRC server!! (/serv irc.dal.net 7000 or telnet telnet.dal.net to try it out) -- ____ _ _ _ "I had the dagger in my hand, and he has | _ \ __ _| |_ _____ _ _ (_)__ _| |_the indecency to start dying on his own!" | |_) / _` | \ V / -_) ' \ | / _` | ' \ --Ambassador G'kar, Babylon 5 |____/\__,_|_|\_/\___|_||_|/ \__,_|_||_| FoxFire -- dalvenjah@dal.net -- (SN90) |__/