On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:26:58PM +0000, Jon Camfield wrote:
| > So, given that what I want to do would be non-commercial,
| >low-bandwidth (comparatively, it'd be pretty big for a 28.8 ;) ), and
| >(hopefully) not a security risk, do any of you know if TW would allow
| >this?
|
| The policy you sign is for NO SERVERS, PERIOD.
Not quite. That is how they're interpeting it, but what the policy
*really* says is :
>From "Definitions, 5.(b):" available at
http://www.austin.rr.com/twaustin/termsandcond.html :
"Subscriber will not resell the Service, or any portion thereof, or
otherwise charge others to use the Service, or any portion
thereof. The Service is for personal use only, and Subscriber agrees
not to use the Service for operation as an Internet Service Provider,
to host web sites for other parties or for any other business
enterprise or to connect the Cable modem to any server or to any
computer outside of the Subscriber's premises."
They key is the phrase :
`... or to connect the Cable modem to any server or to any computer
outside of the Subscriber's premises.'
Which can be read to mean at least two different things :
1) your cable modem can't be connected to any server.
your cable modem can't be connected to any computer outside of
your premises.
or
2) your cable modem can't be connected ( to any server or to any
computer ) outside of your premises.
English - what a wonderfully ambiguous language.
| Would they notice and/or
| disconnect your account presuming you weren't being a bandwidth hog?
| doubtful.
People have said they've gotten the nasty letters about it without
being a bandwidth hog. At least that's what they claimed :)
And RR *is* probing for servers ... we see it in our logs.
| I know people who run personal FTP servers, and even full-scale
| linux/apache based servers full-time without getting priveledges revoked.
Me too.
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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