It's all very silly. If you want to avoid gatting nastygrams then start to hook nodes together and then secure your own bandwidth like t1, dsl, buisness partnership, or other source.
> Some have suggested that the cable operators are getting their information > from public databases of access points. That gave me an idea: fight fire > with fire. How about defining "terms of service" for these databases that Unfortunatly, it's a laywers game and nobody else wins. You are probably best off just making sure that you personally cannot be identified by the information on the website. If they really wanted the info it's dirt easy to find out by wardriving. Just keep pinging a server that records all incomming traffic. If you are running a public wlan your RR ip will show up and you are nailed. Or they could just attend one of the social gatherings undercover. I doubt that the complaints filed by M$ and company are anything but a stall tactic untill they can further secure their own broadband services ( a la M$'s recent deal with verizon dsl ). Once they own enough they will do the same thing themselves. Remeber that TWC will allow you to do anything with the service, you just have to pay for RR Pro ( or whatever they are calling the buisness service these days ). All in all the best route is to become free of "residential" broadband providers one way or another. Mabye set up a non-for-profit or a bandwidth buying co-op and attach it to your wireless mesh/net. Between the dozen or so non-commercial wireless providers this could be a valuable next step for some of them. Cheers, Eric -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
