On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Greg Cirino - Cirelle Enterprises wrote: > Running any type of "Server" is a violation of every consumer high speed > access connection TOS.
That's a rather sweeping statement. > Call it what you want, but if it serves, it's a Server "Serving" normally means "answers incoming requests for data," not "transmits data bidirectionally." > Unless I misunderstand what a server is, I think anything that provides > content, (web, ftp, email, telnet, ssh, etc...) is classified as a > server. You misunderstand what a server is. > IMHO all consumer IP blocks should be uni directional and only allowed > input traffic. This is silly on the face of it. HTTP POST can send *huge* amounts of data, and most websites would be useless if you weren't allowed to interact with their web forms. FTP allows upload as well as download. (In fact, SMTP was created to replace a protocol built on top of FTP.) I won't even get into what's possible with ssh. I'm now done contributing to this thread, it doesn't belong on sa-talk. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
