Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!BU-CS.BU.EDU!bzs From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Thoughts on why packet accounting will be A Good Thing. Message-ID: <8804190202.AA18221@bu-cs.bu.edu> Date: 19 Apr 88 02:02:52 GMT References: <8804181519.0.UUL1.3#948@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 By the same token (pardon me) we could argue to raise the fares on on Rte 128 (for the w. coast, 101) until that messy thing called rush hour just stops. Of course, the sudden absence of employees will be a mere artifact of these nice, manageable highways, it is ignorable. I don't know about software engineering by dear resource, it's not self-evident to me. Computing resources have gotten really cheap lately and I daresay they have engendered better software, not worse. For once in history it is becoming clear who will serve whom (you can't tell me that JCL wasn't an attempt to make man serve the computer rather than the other way around.) Let's be real careful, that's all, I ain't sayin' yes and I ain't sayin' no... -Barry Shein, Boston University