On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:51, Tilly, Lawrence wrote:
> As an aside to this, it's interesting how some cable ISPs are configured
> differently than others. I was on attbi for a little over a year, and with
> them I had to actually "register" each of my PCs that I wanted to be on the
Having worked wi
day, June 16, 2003 12:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement
Greg Kettmann wrote:
> I kind of liked the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" method, which someone
> mentioned so kind of wish I'd just kept quiet, but I'm sure they're v
Greg Kettmann wrote:
I kind of liked the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" method, which someone
mentioned so kind of wish I'd just kept quiet, but I'm sure they're very
aware of all the routers out there. I would assume that their all a
dead givaway based on their MAC addresses.
Most cable firewall
Interestingly Comcast actually wrote back. They said:
"Thank you for writing to Comcast.
I apologize for any inconvenience that you may be experiencing. For now the information that we have available is that you will be able to use a router on our network. More information will be released
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 06:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > One of the things I read in attbi.ne.techtalk.general
> > is that all a Linux user like me has to do is config
> > different IP addrs for the POP, SMTP and NNTP servers,
> > reportedly these:
> >
> > send email (SMTP):smtp.comcast.net
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:22:48 -0400
Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:35:01PM -0400, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> >
> > ..
> > One of the things I read in attbi.ne.techtalk.general
> > is that all a Linux user like me has to do is config
> > different IP a
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:35:01PM -0400, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
>
> ..
> One of the things I read in attbi.ne.techtalk.general
> is that all a Linux user like me has to do is config
> different IP addrs for the POP, SMTP and NNTP servers,
> reportedly these:
>
> send email (SMTP):
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:59:05 -0400
"Travis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Except that all of those things have a nice disclaimer that basically
> states that they can change it at any time at any reason to anything
> and not tell you, you just have to go look at the agreement online
> every onc
> The only document I ever signed was the Continental Cablevision
> document. Somewhere in my archives I may have email from a VP
> authorizing an internal network. I could probably use that if Comcast
> starts playing hardball but it would be more like, "our agreement
> supercedes that, cease and
Andrew W. Gaunt wrote:
Well, the farmer
awoke to find a nice fattened pig there one Sunday
morning. He sure made a fine meal that evening.
Wait, I don't understand -- did the other pig jump the farmer? That was
a good plan, I bet that farmer never expected there were *two* pigs
involved! Of
The only document I ever signed was the Continental Cablevision
document. Somewhere in my archives I may have email from a VP
authorizing an internal network. I could probably use that if Comcast
starts playing hardball but it would be more like, "our agreement
supercedes that, cease and desist".
It's a big pig, little pig thing.
The story goes something like this:
There were two baby pigs. Every night after the
farmer had gone to bed, they would sneak under
the wire, steal a bit of grain from the barn, eat it and
and then sneak back before morning. One of the
pigs had a larger appetite t
>This was cut from the email announcement.
Yes, that would be an example of one of those
lowest-common-denominator messages I referred to.
[.]
>I believe from this that attbi email forwarding will not
>be available if the transition wizard is not used
You are, of cour
This was cut from the email announcement.
Time is running out to make the transition to Comcast High-Speed
Internet. Take a couple of minutes to
make the necessary changes now.
If you have already downloaded the Transition Wizard, the only thing
you need to do is
restart your com
>What is even more disturbing from their latest notice
>to subscribers is the fact that unless you use their
>update agent, you will not be able to use the att
>email forwarding That to me seems wrong, coupled
>with the fact that the update agent only works on OE,
>not any other email client
I recall that Comcast is tight with Microsoft. MS made a big investment
in Comcast a few years ago.
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:31, Chris wrote:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 5:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Section 6, subsection g of [Comcast's TOS] states ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 5:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Section 6, subsection g of [Comcast's TOS] states ...
>
> I'm pretty sure AT&T Broadband's TOS has similar prohibitions on
> multiplexing their service. They also prohibit a number of other things.
> At one
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 5:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Section 6, subsection g of [Comcast's TOS] states ...
I'm pretty sure AT&T Broadband's TOS has similar prohibitions on
multiplexing their service. They also prohibit a number of other things.
At one time, you could read their TOS as pr
FYI, machines within the attbi.com domain can connect
to the NNTP server(s) named netnews.attbi.com and you
may find some postings of interest related to this topic.
The best group is probably
attbi.ne.techtalk.general
...but there are a number of others that might
also provide info of inte
Sorry if this is somewhat off topic. Perhaps it's not since it involves
Linux and NAT. I have many friends using "Broadband Routers" that I've
set up. As I imagine we all know these allow one machine to act like a proxy
for a group of other machines. (Yes, I know it's technically not a pro
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