On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, John Curran wrote:
If both ends are paying for this traffic and the receivers continue to participate, then they must find it worthwhile.
Don't you mean senders here? (You seemed to be proposing a senders pay system.) If not, of course receivers would continue to participate, they earn money under your scenario for each bit they receive! If you did mean senders, the point was that the senders don't have control because high volume legitimate non fradulent receivers would suck as much data as possible from their sites in such a way to be indistinguishable from any other legitimate use. Receivers would sit around all day thinking of fun new legitimate nonfraudlent undetectable ways to do this. Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+