May you live in interesting times, may you get everything you ask for, and may you come to the attention of those in power. - Ancient Chinese Proverb Mat Butler -----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 9:08 PM To: Scott Francis Cc: nanog@merit.org Subject: Re: Network Sizing Guidelines? On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:40:27 PST, Scott Francis said:

Freenet, Gnutella, Aimster ... napster is merely the poster child for a new generation of file sharing clients and protocols. Pandora has already opened the box, regardless of Napster's ultimate fate.

I'm not sure which is more surreal, the 11th-hour proposal by Napster to filter based on filename "because nobody would ever misspell Metallica", or the interesting twist in Aimster's usage policy, which would require the record industry to intentionally violate the same laws they wanted passed in order to get evidence to use as the basis of a lawsuit.... "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly dissapear and be replaced by something even more bizzare and inexplicable. There is another that says this has already happened". -- Douglas Adams "May you live in interesting times" -- ancient Chinese curse Hang on everybody, we're in for a ride.... Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech