This needed to be done last week
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Broadband Crackdown
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· Score: 2, Informative
The @Home call center has been getting thousands of calls a day because of the Code Red worm. People calling in for everything from wondering why their activity light is going nuts 24/7 to the poor saps who can no longer connect because the routers and nodes are over loading and going hard down. This port 80 block is needed. Sure some users run servers on port 80. Aside from the fact that they signed a TOS saying they wouldn't, they shouldn't be so arrogant as to think that they (since they know how to run a server) deserve to not help everyone else (newbie or not) have a good internet experience.
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The @Home call center has been getting thousands of calls a day because of the Code Red worm. People calling in for everything from wondering why their activity light is going nuts 24/7 to the poor saps who can no longer connect because the routers and nodes are over loading and going hard down. This port 80 block is needed. Sure some users run servers on port 80. Aside from the fact that they signed a TOS saying they wouldn't, they shouldn't be so arrogant as to think that they (since they know how to run a server) deserve to not help everyone else (newbie or not) have a good internet experience.