Edward Henigin <ed@texas.net> wrote:

Unmetered usage develops an environment which puts some sort of backpressure on the end user, to discourage or prevent the usage of too much resource.

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The journalist may be stupid, but the point has some merit.

To be more precise it would have had merit if Internet metering was at least remotely technically feasible. Or are we going to discuss some hot mountain real estate deals we could get by melting some ice in Antarctic? --vadim