-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I wasn't going to get into this thread, but against my better judgement I will. First off, them blocking ports or shaping traffic or whatever THEY want to do... It's their network and like most corporate networks, the admins DO what they WANT to do, or need to do to make service as good as possible. If you have a problem with it you need to find yourself a different provider or level of service. Cableone does have a Business Plan, which I'm sure let's you place a "server" on the wire. You just have to buck up and pay the $100.00 a month. People who run a business on a resdential service are getting what they pay for. As far as defining a server.... If it runs a service that people connect to. It's a server... I.E. it serves, be it mail, web pages, gaming realms, or whatever. Also they are blocking mail servers.... When you talk about them blocking news or IRC, those are mostly SERVICES, I don't know to many people who run news or irc SERVERS out of their houses.
You can be as hostile as you want towards them, but like I said it's THEIR network. If they start losing customers they may retract their statement ( I highly doubt that this will occur). Also you have to think of this outside the realm of Sioux City. Cableone has internet access in at least 10 other states. If you think about the amount of traffic that could be generated and what it costs them in upstream bandwidth. For them it's more than likely a big money saver for them to do this. Figuring they more than likely spend 9 to 10 grand a month for a full DS-3 to AT&T. Mike On Tue September 9 2003 10:42 am, 02fun-u2 wrote: > for those of you who follow the Omaha Linux groups list this has been a > problem that they have faced with cox. the business accounts seem to be ok. > what are the solutions if you want to run your own MTA? change you mx > records? are they just blocking 25 out or in or both. USA PATRIOT Act > maybe? > http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html > http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa >_patriot_analysis.php Carnivore maybe? > http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html > The surveillance system captured not only the electronic communications of > the court-authorized target, "but also picked up E-Mails on non-covered" > individuals, a violation of federal wiretap law. > http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/5_02_release.html > > yes i know its agenst the terms of service. but what is a server! > i could install a system with win 95 and load some software and bam! i have > a server. (ya it's a junk server but still!) when will they start blocking > other ports? maybe irc ports, news group ports, etc. it just is a bad idea. > if they have open relay problems than punish those people. > > if they aren't running anti virus on there server and some spam killing > software than they are just trying to do somthing else. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/XkZ1mUFtrUUciv4RAgmgAJ4+/SYUH8e2iFnspp3CmZMNIi21DACY2zEV CQ4w1Sj4S9JH1OaSo3fLcw== =H82T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
