Re: Comcast using IPS to protect the Internet from their home user clients?

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Maarten wrote:

        [SNIP]

> Soon after discovering this I ditched them (as I needed to run my own servers
> anyway) and I'm very glad my new ISP can be trusted to not fsck up something
> on my line without telling me upfront.  I'm not personally against ISPs
> filtering, that would fix a lot of problems with compromised boxes, but they
> should allow for non-clueless people to still run their servers, for instance
> by a configurable setting in the ISPs' service pages.

Many do, some providers are dividing their offerings into residential/home
accounts and business accounts.  Still others only provide such on co-lo
accounts.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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