Re: Notice to Comcast users!

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>]

On 9/18/08 12:47 PM, in article
4tGdnRzD8cdoGE_VnZ2dnUVZ_vjinZ2d@comcast.com, "Bill Garber"
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> "Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message
> news:eXtAk.587$D32.0@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com...
>> Bill Garber wrote:
>>> 
>>> "Greg Buchner" <null@none.invalid> wrote in message
>>> null-59E463.07251418092008@newsgroups.comcast.net">news:null-59E463.07251418092008@newsgroups.comcast.net...
>>>> In article 
>>>> <6b62270b-b0f2-4069-a50b-6fef80dafb67@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>>>> willy46pa <garberstreet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 17, 8:23 am, Greg Buchner <n...@none.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <XP_zk.616$Ws1...@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>,
>>>>>>  Steven Lichter <diespamm...@ikillspammers.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Greg Buchner wrote:
>>>>>>>> Comcast (hereafter referred to as Com$haft) is dropping all
>>>>> newsgroup
>>>>>>>> access as of 10/25/2008.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> New customers who sign up now will not be able to access it all.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You can still do a 3rd party news server.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Figured I'd post this being that I know there's some people who
>>>>> use
>>>>>>>> Com$haft.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> They are going to reduce the monthly fee, or are they going to
>>>>> raise it
>>>>>>> because they are giving you less service?  They also charge extra if
>>>>>>> you D/L to right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Being that Com$haft is a typical cable company, I'd figure on them
>>>>>> raising rates. They never go down, just up, even when you get less.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And I imagine they'd like to charge extra if you download.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Greg
>>>>> 
>>>>> When you say download, I assume you mean conspicuous download,
>>>>> because, all the Internet is, is downloading, with an occassional
>>>>> upload
>>>>> in between.
>>>> 
>>>> No, I assume they'd like to charge for all downloads. Sort of like my
>>>> electric bill. I pay some base fees/charges, then everything else is
>>>> billed via how much I use.
>>>> 
>>>> It probably won't happen, but I'm sure they'd like that.
>>>> 
>>>> Greg
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am sure, too, but it would cause them more problems than it's worth
>>> trying to legally prove how much we actually 'did' download each month.
>>> Unlike electric, which uses a meter to show our actual usage.  ;-)
>>> Sure it does.  8=O
>>> Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
>>> http://www.garberstreet.com
>>> 
>>> "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing
>>> is to be remembered." (Edgar Allen Poe)
>> 
>> 
>> It is very simple to tell your usage, the system records any usage when
>> you are logged onto the server, just like a meter on your other
>> utilities i, much like your minutes on yout phone.
>> 
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> 
> Oh great!, and they would probably measure it by megabyte, so,
> one byte over a full megabyte and they charge you for the next
> full megabyte.  :-(
> 

Hmm - this could get really nasty!

For example, is it your fault if your carrier starts to give some
disreputable web sites a little incentive to include huge images on their
web pages to boost your download (both in megabytes and in megabytes per
some quantity, be it time or by page fetch)?

Having to pay more because of the increase in bandwidth you use because some
sites are funded by ads (either partially or whole), so you wind up paying
Com$haft in the end?