----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:26 AM Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]
> At 6/17/2003 14:42 -0400, you wrote: > >actually, alot of ISPs including one we resell dont allow you to even make > >outgoing smtp connections unless you're going to there servers, and I know > >that MOST if not all of the Broadband providers in the US for residential > >service clearly state that you are NOT to run daemons of any kind on their > >service. > > > >-Drew > <snip> > My ISP's allows me to do whatever the heck I please on my line as long as > it's not illegal. Period, end of story. That applies to both providers in > the USA and in Latin America. Why? Because I make it a point to buy > services from companies who follow policies I like, and I like that one. I > also run our own mailserver, because the anti-virus scanning, spam > assassinating, filtering, and managing I want for my mail is all stuff I > can't get reliably from a provider. It's also why I don't buy services from > AOL, for example. </snip> My ISP used to block port 25, until I raised holy hannah about it. I explained that I also run my own email server, etc, for the same reasons that you mentioned (anti-spam, etc) and that they were illegally discriminating against me based upon my choice of operating system. I threatened to start a class-action lawsuit against them based upon their anti-linux policies, and they backed down *very* quickly. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
