<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Recently moving to Iowa from Wisconsin, cable companies have left a bad taste in my mouth. I beta tested for HSA before they were bought by Charter Comm had a horrible time with Charters port blocking almost everything below 1024, agressivly finding home routers, using a transparent proxy and lying about it..ggrrrrr.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here I use FreeseNotis which doesn't seem to care what I do, as long as they don't get a DoJ letter.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 4, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Tim Wilson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It may be technically feasible, but it may not always be legally</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">feasible. :-)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Mediacom says "thou shalt not run any server on thou</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">network", or something to that effect.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The problem is what defines a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">server?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If you share a printer, then technically, you have a print</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">server.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If you share files, then you have a file server.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You get the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">idea.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I don't think Mediacom would come after you for those things,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">but if they busted you running a pron server out of your home, they</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">might tack on the other violations of the agreement as well.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If your</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">DSL provider doesn't have issues that Mediacom does, then it should be</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">fine.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Of course, I wouldn't run the next Google off your home DSL</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">connection. :-)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>