Re: GEnieLamp

[cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira)]

In a previous article, scott@b8.b8.ingr.com (Scott Gentry) says:

>toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
>>The "wasted bandwidth" thing is invoked so often, and consumes so much
>>bandwidth, that it carries no weight at all anymore. If we were all really
>>so concerned about bandwidth usage, Usenet would not exist, or barely exist.
>
>Spoken like someone who doesn't know any better.  My site is a news relay
>to six other sites.  To say bandwidth doesn't matter is a joke.  Oh, disk
>space matters, too.  

Uh-huh...my point, Scott, was that so much bandwidth is wasted every day
(right now, for instance) that to complain about the few lines of ads in
the newsletter is absurd. Bandwidth is also expended without use if you
choose to answer a message without actually reading the whole thing, and
by quoting so as to misrepresent.

And, I am aware that advertising is verboten on the Internet...I'd be
perfectly happy if it were verboten in this society. Again, this was my
point - if you're going to whine about this issue, at least whine about
the fact of advertising, not the specific amount of bandwidth it
consumes.


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