[Bcced to meer.net folks in case I say something about them that needs correction.]
I received email purporting to be from one Richard Lyman, pchammer at dynx dot net.. It quoted me: >That [wireless Internet access sharing] does not seem to me to fit >the name "theft". It's the same thing I do when I run a web site or >a mailing list on my DSL line, after all. The author of this email responded: > interesting, since i'm sure your DSL provider has a clause about running > servers. that is unless you PAY MORE for the business level service. > so, what do you call violating a providers TOS? > > i think Don read it just right. My DSL provider, meer.net, does not, to my knowledge, oppose running servers on residential DSL lines; certainly the folks there, from front-line tech-support to the principals, know that I run servers on my DSL lines, and have had ample opportunity to complain if so. Until recently, they didn't offer non-business-level service, and I had planned to pay more for their business-level SDSL service; now they resell Covad ADSL as well for non-business-critical Internet connectivity, and I use that. If their terms of service forbade running servers in my house, I would call that immoral and switch providers, and if someone violated such terms of service, I would call that a breach of contract, not theft. I have been very pleased with meer.net's competence and quality of service. It does not speak well of this Richard Hammer that he assumed I was a lying, cheating bastard immediately upon reading my email; I hope I never have the misfortune to have business dealings with him. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in August of 2002. The world has lost a great man. See http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=252 and http://www.kode-fu.com/geek/2002_08_04_archive.shtml for details. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
