--- "Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy)" gishu.pillai@bently.com wrote:

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Remind me again, what are we arguing about?

Some one called Philip 'raving mad' which was *out of line* to his valid post of not presenting your online acc info to a random website on a platter. and then detour to mailing-list-Wonderland, where posters play n blind-men and the elephant (any word/jargon)... except that here the elephant can't just sit on them and squish the spiral argument.

• Gishu

And we thought that Amartya Sen was making it all up. :0)

Ok, an OT but, what would you say if a service provider wants to charge you for estimated dedicated bandwidth from their existing bandwidth.

Say Service provider has 1 T1 line. I want to put my server there. They want me to determine what bandwidth would I need and therefore charge me accordingly. On the face of it, the question sounds irrelevant because server being in the US, the amounts used are negligible to the amounts available and no one there has asked for such an estimate.

The server in question runs Linux and the application is a clean text based (old time green emulation) accounting software that can be fired up via ssh or putty for windows users. How much bandwidth could such an application possibly require? (rhetorical as well as serious question). I think the person is trying his luck. Any merits to his question?

thanks.

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