(as you noted below)
"My DSL provider, meer.net, does not, to my knowledge, oppose running
servers on residential DSL lines;"
(meer.net must comply with)
http://www.covad.com/alliance/agreement.shtml
http://www.covad.com/alliance/WebVAR_BAP-v40-080602-WebVsn-Final.pdf
(note: 2 c)
and you also comply with http://www.ipservices.att.com/policy.html
(from covads FAQ)
Q: Can home users link multiple personal computers (PCs) to the same DSL connection?
A: Yes. Covad's TeleSoho service can connect multiple PCs using the same connection.
so, unless you have the 'telesoho' lines, NO you can't run servers, nor even share your line with more than one computer.
also, i wasn't the one that used the word 'theft', Don did. and, for 'not speaking well of', you did that all on your own. my email was private to you. you were the one that decided to bring it here and try to bash me.
merry freakin christmas to you too! geez
Kragen Sitaker wrote:
[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 fitThe author of this email responded:
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.
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?My DSL provider, meer.net, does not, to my knowledge, oppose running
i think Don read it just right.
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.
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