28 May
2004
28 May
'04
8:23 a.m.
Yup, and as a SysOp, I can feel their pain. IMHO
they're better
off this way, dealing with the wrath of a very few clued customers,
instead of dealing with thousands of abuse messages because of
viruses and/or spam.
Depending on their implementation, they possibly could adjust
filter settings based on authentication, so maybe they could
offer "100% free-as-in-speech" access to the 'net to a select
few people. If you can guarantee them you'll never catch an
MS Windows-based virus, maybe they'll let you have that setting ;-)
yes and no.
it is unacceptabel of a provider to just disable ports and force you to use
their servers, without telling anybody about it.
even if they told anybody about it, it was unacceptable to me, because i don't
want to use THEIR servers...
anyway, as i wrote before, i can confirm that coditel hasn't done so, at least
not for me.
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regards,
Georges Toth