| From: | Alan Bailey |
| Date: | 10 May 2000 at 17:49:40 |
| Subject: | Re: 0800 |
Hello Richard
On 09-May-00, you wrote:
>> In what way is using an Internet connection to download stuff from the
>> Internet abuse?
>
> None, but the point I was trying to make (badly) was that unless there's
> unlimited bandwidth and modems available, which like all ISP's there's
> not, eventually it will reach saturation point where no one can get
> connected. If people where paying normal BT rates would they hog the
> resources for hours on end downloading tons of MP3's etc? of course they
> wouldn't. So why do they do it on RHA. Yes because it's free'ish. Selfish
> buggers. :)
They do it because they payed a fee to RHA so that they could get online
and download these files and not worry about the cost of the call, its
the people that are keeping the connection open and not realy using it
that are abusing it.
Regards
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