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kpatz
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join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH

Re: ISP Shouldn't Be Liable

We're starting down a slippery slope here... it started innocently enough when ISPs started blocking risky ports such as 135-139 and 445, not bad in and of itself, but then it's started to expand into ports like 25 (to block spam and/or mailservers), 80 inbound (blocking web servers), and now P2P apps?

If we let this continue, residential Internet connections will eventually be restricted to 80 and 443 outbound, to selected "safe" sites.

An ISP should provide internet ACCESS. If I want any ports or services blocked, I'll do it myself with this handy dandy device called a firewall.
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Robert Tappan Morris, Jr., got six months in jail for crashing 10% of the computers that Bill Gates made $100 million crashing last weekend.
navalpatel

join:2003-07-28
Lubbock, TX

Re: ISP Shouldn't Be Liable

* thank god that im the only one that sees this....
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