A few thoughts... 1) There is a bandwidth crunch due to "file sharing." I am not going to comment on MP3 swapping, my opinion is not the point, but recent studies claim that 60% of the bandwidth is being sucked up by 5% of the users. Bandwidth is money to Cox, so anything that costs bandwidth is verbotten if they can fix it. Blocking mail servers is cheese cake; even the morons they hire can manage that. Stoping private VPNs, and the like is too invasive. They are strangling the upload bandwidth as well.
2) I run a domain as a hobby. As hobbies go, it is my cheapest vanity. A hosted domain is less than a hundred dollars a year. This can provide a list server and many other advantages. A major advantage to a someone in Louisiana is that the list server stays up during hurricanes. 4) Your contract with Cox assures you they do not support Linux, mail servers, and ftp sites. It is in the fine print. Get a DSL line to run that sort of stuff, but I think a remote server is a better option. If you want to tweak it and have absolute control, get a dedicated server. This will Co$t a lot more though. 5) What cox's response will be, if any, to the slashdot article is that if you want commercial service, pay for it. Hard cheese, but there it is. They offer the services you want. They sell them to LSU and the State of Louisiana, but they ain't cheap. None of this was good news, but we live a material world, and bandwidth is not free. --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about setting up a mail server somewhere else > and using that? > > -----Original Message----- > From: will hill > To: [email protected] > Sent: 6/13/03 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Speaking of mail.... > > It's not sendmail. Some ISPs now block mail from > DSL boxes like > yourself: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/13/2215207.shtml?tid=120 > > I wanted to set up a mail server for the CCCC, but > now it seems > pointless. Last week, Russ told me that he wanted > such a thing because > they have about 1,000 members they message once a > month. Cox has a 100 > mail cap, so they have to cut up their mail list and > they hate that. > Looks like they are either going to keep hating it > or get some "special" > arrangements so that they can be one of the > privileged few allowed to > broadcast. > > The only way to make the internet usable is to keep > it open. I wrote > Cox and told them their efforts were futile and > harmful, but did not > hear anything back. I submitted a story to Slashdot > too. We shall see > what happens. Chances are the noose will continue > to tighten and the > internet will go the way of broadcast radio and TV. > > > On 2003.06.13 15:49 Karthik Poobalasubramanian > wrote: > > Hi ppl > > well here's the situation. I have around 5 > active > > email addresses(don't ask me why I have 5!). I use > > bellsouth adsl and i am sure port 25 is open. In > order > > to manage all the emails from one single > point(also i > > need to access it from anywhere) i use fetchmail > to > > get it to the local mailbox on my box. this part > works > > perfectly fine. But to send mails from my box I > use > > sendmail.To read and send messages I use pine. The > > trouble is not everyone i email get them. some > emails > > are totally lost some reach in few hours and most > of > > them reach within few seconds. > > i have searched in google and read through some of > the > > documents for sendmail. > > any suggestions? > > > > tia > > karthik > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
