From: Eric A. Hall [mailto:ehall@ehsco.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:03 AM

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The negative side effect is that it cripples people who use email as a file transfer protocol.

Which I do, quite extensively. Transit providers shouldn't be doing this.

I agree. Access providers should be, however.

That depends on your definition of access provider. I would be livid, were my upstream to do such traffic shaping on my feed. We would also be in court for breach of contract. I buy bandwidth and IP space. I expect to get what I pay for. I don't pay to have my traffic restricted by other than my pipe size.