Sorry everyone.  I'm going to have to withdraw this, thanks to
something Charles pointed out:

> I might warn anybody tempted to cooperate with this request to very carefully 
> check their terms-of-service agreements with ComCast to make sure this is not 
> prohibited behavior.

I was so caught up in this that I didn't even think about that.
Running an SSH server alone is probably technically a violation of the
ComCast ToS.  As much as I wish I could still do this, you're right,
I'm not going to be able to.  Thanks for pointing this out.

> Randolph,
>
> I'm a member of this list, and have Comcast, but have no servers running at
> home.  As you yourself stated, you are asking a lot, and even more when one
> considers that you are a total unknown to the group.  Perhaps if you were to
> give more info for verification... Professors, sponsors, etc... that people
> could communicate with to verify who you are, you might get a better
> response.  I myself am not a UMD student (UMUC), but just a list member.
>
> Good luck with the research, it sounds interesting!
>
> Joe

This is a great idea, and I feel a little foolish for not doing this
in my first e-mail.  First of all, for information on me and a little
about my research, you can check out my university web page at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~randofu.  I'm working on this with Bobby
Bhattacharjee and Mark Shayman.  I'd appreciate it if you didn't send
them too many e-mails (since they're busy), especially since I've
realized this won't be possible.  I'm just pointing this out because
even though I'm withdrawing it, I don't want anyone to think that I
was trying to do something shady.


I'm going to go look into the Comcast ToS and see what I can do about
this...  Hopefully I can get around it somehow.

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