AB rebuttal-continued
20-Mar-86 20:06:51
Sb: #12136-AB rebuttal-continued
Fm: Bela Lubkin/Sysop 76703,3015
To: Dave Haynie/C128 Land 76703,2047
Dave, that's a good theory, but it's wrong. The faster and more efficient
downloads are, the more money CIS will make. If there are 5 unrelated files
that I want to download, and it takes 1 minute to download each of them, I
will download all 5. If it takes 3 minutes each, I'll only download 1, and
CIS loses money. This is true in general. Better performance means the user
is getting more for his money, so he feels much more justified in spending
twice as much time — it's worth it, he's getting 5 times as much out of it.
CIS realizes this too; there are certain real constraints on the performance
of a packet network system like this, but they are continually working to
improve it (and they have — were you active online 18 months ago?) – Bela