[KLUG Members] note on charter cable isp connections

[Buist Justin]

As an Earthlink/Mindspring DSL customer for about a year I never found them blocking incoming connections.  I was quite happy with their service.

One thing I -didn't- like though was the dropping of all outgoing packets to port 25 unless it was their mailserver.           It didn't mention this anywhere in the contract I signed up with (beleive me... I looked when I found out what theyw ere doing) and they flatly refused to lift the ban on an account by account basis.

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Gettig [mailto:gettig@chartermi.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:54 AM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] note on charter cable isp connections
> 
> 
> What gets me is that I read the stuff that I signed very carefully and
> *nowhere* in there does it talk about not running a server. But then
> again, this was when they were first rolling it out and the guy that
> installed asked if Linux was a brand of computer like Compaq or Dell.
> (no joke!)
> 
> Just curious, are these port blocks common with DSL providers too? Are
> is it wide open to do what you want with?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 22:08, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> ...
> > The contract that you sign will state that you will not put a server
> > on line.  If you call about why your web server etc does not work
> > they will give you one warning and then after that they will
> > disconnect you never to reconnect you again (or supposedly so but
> > they do make mistakes sometimes).  
> ...
> 
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