I've got a friend that is using DirecWay as he is in a similar situation where cable & dsl are not availble in his area (way out in BFE)... He had told me though he had to go with the business class service so that he could SSH back into his network as it seems they firewall inbound traffic on the residential service. While I was staying with him for a day over X-mas I got to use the connection to check my email back home on the opposite coast and it was fairly slow, but not completely unusable just a bit tiresome.
After reading a good deal of the posts on this thread I figured I'd toss in a few bits of wisdom I've pick'd up...
For one I personally do not think Telephone or Cable companies should be in the internet business as they can't provide reliable service for their primary business let alone a secondary... Some may wish to argue this but if you think about it long enuf you can find the rationale behind this...
Next I always try to find a local or regional provider before I look at any large company... This thread in and of itself is a good case in point... My ADSL service provider is a local company... I've gotten to know the company employees and have openly discuss'd with them my actual usage of the line... They know I run Linux (In fact they even offer tech support) and that I also have host'd web sites and a co-located box or two online as well... All of which I am paid for hosting... I've also got a complete subnet of valid IPs and could have another block in a short period of time should I need it... The point is if you find a smaller local company you generally can get on better terms with them... I'll add that the relationship I have with my provider has also been great when I've had hack attempts made on my equipment as they are as responsive as if it were their own equipment... Honestly I feel you get better quality service in the long run... My only outages have been the result of the Telco who carries the "last mile" of copper performing unscheduled maintaince on the DSLAM that they fail to inform the customer or the ISP offerin ADSL service...
On the topic of the VPN... It's relatively easy for them to block IPSec VPN traffic as it uses standard ports and protocols... All you actually need to do is block the ESP (50) and AH (51) protocols along with the IKE (500) port on UDP (17).
Granted I'm not a lawyer but I have been using MAPS for many years now personally and professionally... If you read the agreements and all pertainant information on MAPS site you will find that YesMail really has no grounds at all as MAPS just provides the list, it's up to the invididuals or companies that find value in the list and make use of it... Therefore if YesMail has any beef to sue someone over they should instead be going against *EVERY SINGLE COMPANY* using the MAPS list not MAPS as MAPS does not force anyone to use the list in the first place...
Hell their own billing system is seriously twisted... I transfer'd *ALL* my domains away from NSI months ago yet I'm still getting "Final Notice" invoices demanding payment for domains that are not registered through them... Personally I was getting tired of there systems always screwing up and modifications not getting made, ie- I left an ISP over 1.5 years ago... there are still domains hosted by my previous employer with me as the contact even though I've sent in domain modifications AND fax'd the changes AND call'd them on the phone and spoke to a body (can't really say one way or the other as to it's warmth)... They [NSI] have many other things they should be concentrating on rather than trying to auction off domains that aren't paid for.
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`goaway')dnl I find no real reason to use any other privacy flag setting... One of the big reasons to keep VRFY disabled is so spammers can't just run a script that goes and verifies hundreds of email addresses on your system for the purpose of compiling a list... If you want to use e-mail address for verification just have a multi-stage process like most sites do these days were the account doesn't get activated till you receive the e-mail and go to a URL or enter a code that is only displayed in the e-mail... if it bounces or they give a bogus address then the e-mail address is obviously not valided...
I had looked very closely at the CodeWarrior product and was actually waiting for the 5.0 Professional version to come out so I could purchase it. Being a software engineer by trade, Linux user at the core and doing custom work as a consultant I've been looking at any IDE that would run on my platform of choice. The 5.0 Professional version was supposed to have a feature set I needed and had in the budget to purchase. Guess I have to go check out the alternatives now.
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I've got a friend that is using DirecWay as he is in a similar situation where cable & dsl are not availble in his area (way out in BFE)... He had told me though he had to go with the business class service so that he could SSH back into his network as it seems they firewall inbound traffic on the residential service. While I was staying with him for a day over X-mas I got to use the connection to check my email back home on the opposite coast and it was fairly slow, but not completely unusable just a bit tiresome.
For one I personally do not think Telephone or Cable companies should be in the internet business as they can't provide reliable service for their primary business let alone a secondary... Some may wish to argue this but if you think about it long enuf you can find the rationale behind this...
Next I always try to find a local or regional provider before I look at any large company... This thread in and of itself is a good case in point... My ADSL service provider is a local company... I've gotten to know the company employees and have openly discuss'd with them my actual usage of the line... They know I run Linux (In fact they even offer tech support) and that I also have host'd web sites and a co-located box or two online as well... All of which I am paid for hosting... I've also got a complete subnet of valid IPs and could have another block in a short period of time should I need it... The point is if you find a smaller local company you generally can get on better terms with them... I'll add that the relationship I have with my provider has also been great when I've had hack attempts made on my equipment as they are as responsive as if it were their own equipment... Honestly I feel you get better quality service in the long run... My only outages have been the result of the Telco who carries the "last mile" of copper performing unscheduled maintaince on the DSLAM that they fail to inform the customer or the ISP offerin ADSL service...
On the topic of the VPN... It's relatively easy for them to block IPSec VPN traffic as it uses standard ports and protocols... All you actually need to do is block the ESP (50) and AH (51) protocols along with the IKE (500) port on UDP (17).
Granted I'm not a lawyer but I have been using MAPS for many years now personally and professionally... If you read the agreements and all pertainant information on MAPS site you will find that YesMail really has no grounds at all as MAPS just provides the list, it's up to the invididuals or companies that find value in the list and make use of it... Therefore if YesMail has any beef to sue someone over they should instead be going against *EVERY SINGLE COMPANY* using the MAPS list not MAPS as MAPS does not force anyone to use the list in the first place...
Hell their own billing system is seriously twisted... I transfer'd *ALL* my domains away from NSI months ago yet I'm still getting "Final Notice" invoices demanding payment for domains that are not registered through them... Personally I was getting tired of there systems always screwing up and modifications not getting made, ie- I left an ISP over 1.5 years ago... there are still domains hosted by my previous employer with me as the contact even though I've sent in domain modifications AND fax'd the changes AND call'd them on the phone and spoke to a body (can't really say one way or the other as to it's warmth)... They [NSI] have many other things they should be concentrating on rather than trying to auction off domains that aren't paid for.
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`goaway')dnl I find no real reason to use any other privacy flag setting... One of the big reasons to keep VRFY disabled is so spammers can't just run a script that goes and verifies hundreds of email addresses on your system for the purpose of compiling a list... If you want to use e-mail address for verification just have a multi-stage process like most sites do these days were the account doesn't get activated till you receive the e-mail and go to a URL or enter a code that is only displayed in the e-mail... if it bounces or they give a bogus address then the e-mail address is obviously not valided...
I had looked very closely at the CodeWarrior product and was actually waiting for the 5.0 Professional version to come out so I could purchase it. Being a software engineer by trade, Linux user at the core and doing custom work as a consultant I've been looking at any IDE that would run on my platform of choice. The 5.0 Professional version was supposed to have a feature set I needed and had in the budget to purchase. Guess I have to go check out the alternatives now.