[Noisebridge-discuss] Internet down

[Rachel McConnell]

Why should they block port 25?  If it's spam prevention, that's the same
theory that DRM uses: inconvenience the people who aren't trying to do
Bad Things, while those who are trying, are able to work around it
without all that much effort.

Rachel

Rick Wesson wrote:
> It took us over 5 years to convince comcast to block port 25, I'm glad you
> appreciate the effort.
> 
> I believe there is a way to open it by calling their technical support
> 
> -rick
> 
> 
> Rachel McConnell wrote:
>> IIRC the 'crappier' way was crappy at least in part b/c Comcast(?)
>> blocks outgoing port 25 so you can't send email except through a web
>> client.  Which bugged the hell out of me...
>>
>> Rachel
>>
>> Josh Myer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:53:42PM -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:47:33PM -0800, ian wrote:
>>>>> I think we're just going to pull some ethernet into the main room and 
>>>>> share the dsl with someone's mac. Viva la path of least resistance!
>>>> Heh.  It should be possible to hook up a wifi router to the DSL.
>>>> Configure it with a "noisebridge-dsl" SSID and bob's your uncle. :)
>>>>
>>> Can we leave it this way?  I liked the old, "crappier" network better.
>>>
>>> (No, really, I'm not kidding.  I appreciate the reliability of human
>>> failover, and accept the cost in convenience and Awesome.)
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