Rebecca Ore on Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:55:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Comcast or Verizon DSL for Linux laptop?


On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Fred K Ollinger wrote:

> 
> I think that's BS. They don't want people to use their home boxes as a
> 'hobby' web server. I'm switching service asap probably to speakeasy. One
> can just get apache to bind to anther port--I did this--but then people
> have to type :81 in their url which is too hard for 90% of the world, so
> this is just plain unacceptable.

Verizon doens't block port 80 in all areas, though.

And most people aren't capable of running secure servers -- they're running IIS
on Windows machines.  



-- 
Rebecca Ore


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