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Re: trollage (Re: Akamai server reliability)

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Mon Nov 28 20:10:54 2005

In message <[email protected]>, Randy Bush writes:
>
>> It isn't just that they are wasting my time.  They are also wasting their
>> own time.  It's the overall lack efficiency that bothers me ;-]
>
>i suspect you have a datapoint on how they're doing financially.
>they ain't stoopid.  they'll deal with it when the cost/benefit
>gets high enough on their priority list.  isn't the first time
>that good s&m covers some technical gaps, and won't be the last.
>
To quote a science fiction story I'm fond of, "efficiency depends on 
what you want to effish".  

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb