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Originally Posted by DVS
I've been ignoring it completely! I did not sign up to a restricted service and I will not adhere to such. If my usage was excessive enough to be causing local problems then I would fully expect a letter from NTL. That hasn't occured but that may be in part because I do all I can to limit the impact of my usage on other users.
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As you have stated, you have continually gone about your current 1 gig a day cap and NTL have NOT written to you. Has it occured that maybe they are using the current cap purely as a fixed figure above which they can say "that's excessive downloading". What I mean is that when I joined BB (back in around 2000), the AUP did say something about not downloading excessive amounts, but did not specify what "excessive" was.
Now, as far as I can tell, NTL have been using the cap this way, as a limit above which they can advise people who are causing problems in their local areas to reduce their downloading.
Assuming NTL have been doing this, who is to say they won't do the same in future? You seem to assume NTL will suddenly cut off or reprimand any customer who goes over the limit.
If they do, fine, complain. Until NTL do that (and I don't think they will), there is nothing to complain about.
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Which actually raises a number of interesting points about the caps. Whose going to be hit by usage charges when they get spammed to death, mail bombed or the latest Windows vunerability lands dozens of customers machines open to spammers relaying via them. Should bring some very interesting threads to these forums in the future, eg my broadband bill is X hundred pound but I haven't used my machine sort of threads  In fact it could prove a very cost effective way of causing people that you dislike serious grief to the wallet. Sign em up to a few dozen porn mailing lists. Within days their email address would be known to half the porn industry
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Bear in mind that the average spam seems to be around the 50-100K (and that's being generous) mark, exactly how much spam is someone going to need to get to use up even 5 Gig a month?