On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:11, Will Hill wrote: The simple truth is, allowing those ports to be open creates a higher amount of traffic due to compromised machines and isn't worth the risk and hassle compared to the number of subscribers who'd have it open for useful purposes. Those who know how to securely run their own web and mail services locally are also more likely to know how to either run them on alternative ports, alternative hosts, or make use of a hosting company. I for one am glad they block those ports, after looking at traffic dumps during the days when the IIS worms were bringing down the internet everywhere. Sure, it causes me to have to host my mail and web elsewhere, but for a small fee I can do that at a hosting company and have less to worry about.
It all goes down to the fact that for the amount of money you pay them, it's not worth it for them to try to support their customers running local mail and web servers. > > > > So, because Windows is easy to crack and hard to do useful things with, those > usefull things are "non-essential"? What makes browsing the big corporate > billboard or spam essential? > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
