Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:56:48AM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 05/19/2011 10:57 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/cablecos-lose-decision-before-crtc/143158
> >
> >This would be nice.  If this works out we would be able to have static
> >IPs on cable modem service from teksavvy and such.  That would be nice.
> 
> One of the supposed advantages of a static IP address cited in that
> article is the ability to run a mail server. That is of no use when
> a significant number of MTAs will treat anything from the Rogers
> "dial-up" IP block as spam anyway.

But it might use your other ISPs IP block in this case.  Could happen
right?

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