[wplug] Net Neutrality: Three Questions

Patrick Wagstrom pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Oct 19 08:25:34 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 07:56 -0400, Michael P. O'Connor wrote:
> If they were so concerned with getting us stuff faster, why not look at 
> the real problem on the internet -- spam -- I bet if they were able to 
> eliminate spam the bandwidth consumed a day would be only 10% what it 
> is now, ok not 10% but you know what I mean we go so much spam it must 
> make a major dent in bandwidth.

Do people still believe this?  The thing that takes up the most
bandwidth on a network is p2p.  Spam and email hardly makes a dent,
especially to the end user.

--Patrick




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