Re: Re(2): Windows Messenger Popup Spam on UDP Port 1026

[petard <petard () sdf lonestar org>]

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:55:35PM -0400, Christopher F. Herot wrote:
> This is essentially what RCN is doing.  Like Shawn McMahon, I found
> myself paying another $20 a month for the privilege of not having port
> 80 blocked and my IP jerked around at random.  This is annoying but at
> least better than Comcast/AT&T/MediaOne/Cablevision which prohibits
> "servers" as if somehow only the annointed should serve up content and
> everyone else should sit passively as web potatoes and just absorb what
> they give us.  Eventually they will realize that if they want broadband
> to take off they will have to get out of the way and let the users try
> applications other than web surfing.
>  
And they are losing customers for this. When I spoke to them, they
refused to guarantee that they would not implement these blocks for a
static IP user, only claimed that they do not implement them.

If you are willing to spend $20 above RCN's already premium rates, you
can get multiple static IPs and an agreement that permits you to run
servers. (I will send details *off list* to anyone who wants them... we
wander rapidly away from the topic of port blocking.)

Of course, you'd be surprised at how many people *think* they want to be
able to run servers, but wind up 0wn3d...


Regards,
petard

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"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die."
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