Re: NO multiple logins !! Livingston won't listen (fwd)

patrick@value.net
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:29:01 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Robert Forsman shaped the electrons to say...
> > LiveWire communcations would like concurrent login limiting to prevent
> >sharing of accounts, as would almost ANY ISP with one thenth of a brain.
>
> Any ISP with 1/10th of a brain should be smart enough to be billing users
> extra for simultaneous logins. Either the user stops doing it or you make
> more money. Win-win. Instead of always looking for a technological fix
> for problems sometimes you might consider policy fixes.
>
Your logic is flawed. In order to institute the policy fix, you also have
to make a technological fix, that being a viable billing system. Given
that many ISP's are not set up for hourly billing, this can be a pain in
the butt. Some would rather not have to deal with the issue at all.

Relax, take a pill, everyone knows that Livingston is going to be working
on it at some point... I think the "Livingston doesn't care" attitude is
a little silly too...

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