> Except, of course, people speeding causes other folks problems and > danger; given the actual bandwidth, a *lot* of folks would have to run a > *lot* of servers in order to inconvenience anybody else even a little, > and that's apparently not happening. That's untrue, 2 or 3 people can easily kill the upstream, and thus, the downstream on any particular node with sufficient bandwidth use (even on AT&T's rate limited network). Personally I poke around my local node from time to time when I notice congestion and find all the kids running KaZaa or whatever the latest program is, if they're hosting something such as 'American.Pie.2-DVD-rip.avi' i'm very likely to shoot off a mail to AT&T about it, they'll contact the customer and tell them to turn it off or lose the account. File sharing is one thing, pushing out as much data as possible 24/7 is abuse. Personal websites are fine, running a commercial website on your home connection is abuse (and AT&T /will/ disconnect you for it). Just be sensible. -- Matthew S. Hallacy CACU, PWGCS, and BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203