Re: Re****ting Spam in Google Groups

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Fred J. McCall 
declared:
> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> :
> :Only if he pays by the byte.  The amount of bandwidth used by text 
> :Usenet groups is say down in the noise compared to almost any other 
> :sort of traffic. 
> :
> 
> No, not only if he pays by the byte.  Unless you have infinite
> bandwidth ANY use of the bandwidth by a user impacts all other users.
> Claiming "Oh, but the impact of my recreation is trivial on those
> working" is just a cop-out.
> 

In theory, sure, reading Usenet could ****ge your employer above some 
cap his ISP placed on data transfer. But in practice, no body cares 
about the bandwidth plain text takes up -- one guy watching a single 
YouTube video transfers more data than you could if you spent all 
day reading Usenet [1].

[1] Assuming you aren't reading alt.binaries.*

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
But intellectual integrity is an attribute that cannot overwhelm 
character, or morality. The devil has intellectual integrity, as do 
all sorts of Stalinists, Nazis and other vile ideologues and useful 
idiots.
    --Jonah Goldberg