Apologies everyone. I was replying to the original post using
webmail and did not notice it was on the chat list. Did not
intend to bring this here. Please do not reply here, keep it
on the chat list where it's more appropriate anyway...

At 12:39 p.m. 3/08/2004, I wrote:
>Actually, Paul mentioned this a few days ago. Based on
>feedback about the way bitstream will work, it's not
>surprising either in my opinion. Routing set up (supposedly
>physical changes) will have to be carried out for each
>customer's bitstream access and it is not a matter of just
>changing login. Therefore it will not be possible for
>Telecom to offer the realm to bitstream provider customers.
>The current bitstream set up does not allow ISPs to offer
>their own Gamers realm (at least not one that doesn't have
>bandwidth limits). Therefore, it would be unfair for Telecom
>to continue to offer the realm.
>
>While there will be some people annoyed at the loss because
>of what it will mean to their online games (both in terms of
>data usage and bandwidth) I think the vast majority of
>people who will be annoyed are those who use the realm to
>download movie trailers, game updates, demos and trailers,
>Linux distros and other stuff available on the JSG FTP
>server.
>
>As for testing, well I suppose that will be up to each
>bitstream provider to provide their own test realm.

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