[BBLISA] nnrp clarification on limitations

[Dean Anderson]

They aren't illegal. Sean indicated the nonsense of his answer when he
noted that easynews just moved to 10G/mo.  Obviously, there are others 
that see 10G as reasonable, and 2G as unreasonable.  Funny that people 
can't see their own illogic.

A cap like that just means that anyone downloading up to the 10G (or
whatever) doesn't need to make special arrangements.  The cap is set high
enough so that they can satisfy users, still make money on average, and
not have too many special arrangments. Special arrangments cost money,
too, Sometimes its just better to raise the limit than try to administer
more special cases.

		--Dean

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> >I've not heard or seen any NNTP services that have no downloaded bytes
> >cap. It would be used/abused that it would be cost effective for
> >whomever was providing it. I've used easynews (http://www.easynews.com)
> >for a couple years, and they just moved to a 10G/month quota.
> >
> >Comcast's cap is 2GB/month, what could you possibly be downloading that
> >you need more? It wouldn't be anything illegal would it? :)
> >
> >Sean
> 
> Nothing illegal to my knowledge.   There are avi files from an overseas tv
> show posted to a newsgroup that gives me a chance to watch said shows.
> 
> I could certainly do more research and see if such postings are considered
> illegal, in which case I would end my nnrp search.
> 
> Scott
> 
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