Agreed, absolutely, but ...
> technical complexity for what is an administrative problem. A problem
> other ISPs have solved quite simply with well written policy statements.
... this is no mere administrative problem; it's an enforcement
problem, and ComOS could help enormously by letting a filter block
packets from being counted as activity.
Like most problems, this one spans a broad spectrum from accidental or
incidental abusers to hard core cheats, with the incidental 'abusers'
accounting for the vast majority of cases. I'd give odds that 75% of
the idle connection time by my users is unintended - and, in the case
of business users paying per minute for their calls, unwanted.
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