------ Forwarded Message From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:24:52 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: NYC Time Warner Cable sending nastygrams to free 802.11 points?
--- From: "rick tait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NYC Time Warner Cable sending nasty letters to subscribers who use 802.11 and offer "free" access Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:22:31 -0400 Declan, I've not seen anything on Politech regarding this specific issue before, but my roommate just called me and let me know that Time Warner Cable of NYC has just sent me a snotty letter basically telling me to shut off my public access point immediately - PERIOD - as its not allowed according to the contract I signed to get their cable service. I don't have the letter in front of me, but if you're interested, I can get it to you this evening. I plan on calling/writing to TWCNYC and asking them if they consider an access-protected 802.11 network is still an infringement of their contract, meaning if I only allow MYSELF access, and no-one else. Is the fact that its just "there" (admittedly unusable by anyone without the access key) an exception to the contract? Now I have to shield my apartment in lead because I can't "advertise" my own private 802.11 network because the backend of the network is TWCNYC's? I don't like where this is going. RMT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ End of Forwarded Message -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
