Subj : Re: Handy list of TCP ports? To : Geo. From : Glenn M. Date : Sun Mar 25 2001 02:12 pm From: "Glenn M." What if the "blocking" was done because the ISP TOS said you could not run local servers? That fair game? Do you allow people who subscribe as $14.95 customers, or let's say DSL subscribers (don't know what you charge for that). Can a DSL subscriber get a fixed IP address, and run their own web site, or mail server? -- Glenn Meadows "Geo." wrote in message news:3abeae61$1@w3.nls.net... | "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) .