Subj : Re: Handy list of TCP ports? To : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l From : Geo. Date : Sun Mar 25 2001 01:52 pm From: "Geo." "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" wrote in message news:3abe929f$1@w3.nls.net... > I was thinking more of scanning that originates with your subscribers. Suppose you dial into the internet from home in order to scan your web server at work so you can determine if it's safe or not. You scan it and get no open ports (because your ISP is blocking the outbound scan) so you think it's safe when in fact it isn't. I'm kind of surprised at these suggestions. How many of you would get pissed off if your ISP were blocking some function you wanted to do over the net? Most people, myself included, feel that when we pay for an internet connection, how we use that connection is nobody's business but our own (as long as we aren't breaking the law). You guys have no idea how many customers we pick up because their old ISP started blocking some function (outgoing smtp connections for one example). I won't do that, I won't sell an internet connection that doesn't measure up to the standards I would demand if I were paying for that connection. If I have a problem with people scanning me then I'll put up a firewall (as I have) and block it myself. Only when I can't block it, as in the case of a flood, would I want help from the ISP. (and in that case I would not have a problem putting up a block to help the customer). Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .