Rogers high-speed internet

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:25, John Macdonald wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:25:46PM -0500, Charles philip Chan 
wrote:
> > > Which is of no use since their TOS forbids servers, IIRC.
> >
> > All the larger generic consumer oriented ones have that.  I don't
> > consider having ssh access to my PC to make it a server.  A web
> > server or mail server would be another issue.
>
> That's the killer for me.  I want to run my own mail server
> to support my own domain; having a web server is something I
> haven't done but if I did it would not be to broadcast info to
> the world, but to allow me remote access to things on the local
> system (which I currently do through ssh), so an ISP-provided
> web site is of no value.  The mail "server" is only handling
> my family's email, nothing commercial, so I view terms that
> forbid it as carelessly attempting to solve a problem that is
> not relevant in my case with an overbroad policy.
>
> I switched from Sympatico for my DSL service when Sympatico
> started blocking incoming SMTP.  And since Sympatico lied and
> told me that they had not made such a change when I first
> asked, and only admitted it after I'd spent a lot of time
> trying to find some other cause for the problem, I'm not
> planning to return.  (Their arrangements with MS have just
> cemented that feeling.)

Anyone running an smtp server these days on a DSL or cable modem 
connection, even if their ISP is going to provider reverse DNS for 
them (unlikely), should know that some unknown percentage of mail 
servers are going to silently drop their mail before it ever reaches 
the intended recipient.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

+1 416-410-3326
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