http://www.lusnet.net BTW, LUS will not be blocking port 25 or any other ports at home subscriber addresses.
Dustin Puryear wrote: > Government funded Internet? I'm not even sure that's an applicable term > anymore, even ignoring the handover in the 90's. Wait, was it the 90's? > GOOD LORD I HAVE NO MEMORY. > > -- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices > > Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration > > > Brad Bendily wrote: > >> On 9/23/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: >> >>> In clear, technical terms: Why? >>> >>> >> Will, >> Are you saying that because Cox is providing us (the public) access to >> the governmentally funded internet that they can't or shouldn't do >> what they want within their own network? Cox is a business just like >> any other, they are trying to make a buck and please most of their >> customers. If blocking port 25 outbound saves even 10-20% of spam, >> when there are 1-2 millions messages a day? hour? minute? then 10-20% >> is a rather significant number. >> >> At any rate, if you have the money, knowledge and/or means to create >> your own ISP and serve customers you're welcome to do so, and I won't >> try to tell you how to run your network no matter how fundamentally >> different my view might be from yours. >> >> Would you tell Ford how to build a car because they provide you a >> means to use the governmentally funded highways? Well, you might, but >> I doubt you would get very far there either. >> >> I'm with you about freedom and choices, I agree with that, but I don't >> think what Cox is doing, port blocking, is a move to block freedom and >> choices. You can host your own server at a multitude of different >> locations around the world and run any service you want, just because >> Cox doesn't let you do this from your house isn't necessarily holding >> you back. >> >> This discussion should be on the political list, but at least it's a >> discussion, we haven't seen many of those lately. >> bb >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
