At 4:40 PM 8/5/96, Martin Minow wrote:
Arun Mehta <amehta@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in> writes:
True, though even better would be simply to charge you a flat rate. If billing is that expensive, why bother?
Tragedy of the Commons.
Flat rate works only if no single user can use more than a tiny fraction of the total bandwidth.
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