Rogers bandwidth warnings appearing in web browser

[Scott Allen]

On Fri Apr 25,2008 12:42:22 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:50:17AM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>> <quote from a web page>
>> Mr. Hartling said the ?only? way Rogers could notify its
>> customers they were approaching their bandwidth limit was
>> to intercept and alter other content providers webpages.
>> When asked why Rogers could not use email or postal mail
>> to notify their high speed internet customers, Digital Home
>> was told that not all Rogers High speed internet users had
>> email and that mail was too slow.
>> </quote>
>> 
>> Umm... "not all Rogers High speed internet users had email"??
>> 
>> What about the up to 10(?) e-mail accounts you get when you
>> sign up for. Rogers hi-speed which can be accessed by an
>> e-mail program or web browser? I would wonder about these
>> people getting hi-speed internet access that don't use
>> either an e-mail program or web browser.
> 
> I certainly never check any rogers email account, so they have
> a very valid point.

Who said anything about using a *Rogers* e-mail account? Rogers could 
easily set up a way to allow you to register *any* e-mail address as 
the one you want to be informed via.

They could send snail-mail and/or hijack your web pages *once* to 
instruct you on how to choose the way you want to be informed of 
aproaching bandwidth limits (and other things, for that matter):

1. Continue to alter my web pages.

2. Send e-mail to an account that I specify (not necessarily a Rogers 
account).

3. (Maybe) Send a canned voice message to a phone number that I 
specify, like libraries do for overdue books.

4. (Maybe, at least for some O/S's) Provide a custom daemon 
application, that I install, which talks on a separate IP port. This 
would attach to a server and pop up messages or otherwise provide the 
information.

5. (Maybe) One or more other methods that I haven't thought of.

6. Any combination of the above.

7. Don't inform me at all. I'll monitor things myself and suffer the 
consequences of not receiving the information.

The default could be number 1, so for anyone not choosing differently 
it would be as it is now.

My point is that, contrary to what Mr. Hartling has allegedly stated, 
altering web pages is certainly not the only way that Rogers could 
inform its customers they are approaching their bandwidth limit!


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