On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Shaun Marolf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 12:46 -0700, Chris Miller wrote: >> Not according to Comcrap's wording, but the legalese from other ISPs >> could be better-formed. >> > Comcast wants to detere you from running a private server, however > federal law has already states you can run a private server. You have > the right to run any internal service you desire but if you run any form > of a public ftp, web or other public access server over the Internet > connection then Comcast can terminate your service. What you do with > your private network is none of their damned business by law.
Gee whiz, they gave you a better contract than they gave me! Their terms were extremely clear: no servers whatsoever of any kind (does this mean that my router's DHCP server is illegal? According to their legalese, yes) I have been happily ignoring their flawed legalese, of course, running local development servers of all kinds (Apache, Postfix, Ruby on Rails gizmos, JBoss, Tomcat, GlassFish, MySQL, etc... all related to technologies I'm learning to use, all completely local, all completely in breach of contract as it was worded). The moral of the story: do not try and piss off your ISP. It's not a good thing to do. Just know your rights and be prepared to become a slave to a third-party hosting provider. -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman | John 3:16! http://www.fsdev.net/ | http://www.fsdev.net/~cmiller Parents, Take Responsibility For Your Kids! http://www.whattheyplay.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
