k I'm on cable one but not running a mail server but lets get technical for a sec, my firewall is the only cpe that is on there network. that firewall hooks up to MY 24 ports of 10/100 fun. So say i setup a nice qmail or postfix daemon on my home lan. now lets face it I'm NOT running a server on there network, it's on mine. if i port forward my port 25 the data is the only thing going from there network to mine. the Internet is about freedom of transition (free as speech and liberty) of thoughts and ideas within the bounds of law. those transitions take the form of data. by stooping the transition of an IEEE standard they are really just censoring there customer and going agents the general Internet governing body.
so lets really get down to the "stuff" 1. if cable one is so concerned over spam and other bad things why don't they implement something like spam assign on there mail connection. 2. why aren't the scanning all the email going through there gateway for virus. 3.why don't they have some sort of proxy that if you want to use, scans web content for virus, bad cgi, etc. just a thought are you running a firewall that can be administered from off site? With http or ssh. Well just to let you know you are running a server, you must now disconnect from cable one. Also the people that want to get around port 25 blocking will. why not block incoming port 22? no one has a use for ssh unless they are running a server right? Or maybe there some hacker who owns some one else's box and using it for DDos ps Jeromey how is lisa's box doing :) inside joke! _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
