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Ariel Biener <ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il> writes:

> If, in order to supply you with your needs, it needs to add 5Mbit of
> capacity to it's planned capacity, it costs a FORTUNE.

I don't buy this argument. They can limit the traffic by contract, and
offer to pay more for extras, just as Haim said.

> Thus, they don't mind enlarging capacity, and charging you for extra
> traffic (depends what SLA you have with them), since it doesn't hurt them
> economically.

How can it hurt the provider economically if the bill the customer?

> Try thinking about how we regard water, and how does Norway regard
> water.

Bad example - water in Israel is a scarce unrecoverable resource - not
merely expensive.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."

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