I have reached the conclusion that some of these threads are good indicators of the degree of underemployment among our esteemed members. But don't worry, I am not a snitch. Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. Landline: 33-1-4346-3209. French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97. AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com rodbeck@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Martin Hannigan Sent: Tue 1/15/2008 9:25 PM To: Joe Greco Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... On Jan 15, 2008 3:52 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
Joe Greco wrote:
I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me, sorry.
There isn't one. The "fat man" metaphor was getting increasingly silly, I just wanted to get it over with.
Actually, it was doing pretty well up 'til near the end. \
Not really, it's been pretty far out there for more than a few posts and was completely dead when "farting and burping" was used in an analogy. -M<