Re: How much traffic does your ISP filter by TCP port no.?

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"Didi" <dp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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A few days ago my ISP blocked my outgoing TCP connections to
port 25 - except to their mailserver. After a few calls they agreed
to

Here in the UK people have successfully ended their contracts with
ISPs for doing precisely that.

That may be UK specific.


It's also the current trend to block newsgroup/usenet access too.
Again, a reason to terminate a contract for fragmented service.

Frequent, indeed many "ISP"s never did/will offer usenet news. Many
others refuse all binary groups.


This is the result of letting the sundry and all onto The Internet.
They
*think* that the Internet is nothing more than port 80 web browsing.

Even google executives have that problem, it is rather common.

My partner has no concept of what a Megabyte is when I'm trying to
keep our
usage down. He sits on a Playstation-3 all evening downloading
GBytes of
whatnot without a care in the world. We've been disconnected
twice!! And I have to foot the bill.

Kick the SO to the curb for at least a week for that. Willful
ignorance is a horror.


Here I am on Usenet snipping out previous posts to keep the
bandwidth down.

Your politeness may be appreciated occaisionally.

And then you get the Google Groups crowd turning up
and complaining that
someone's just told them to *** off! :-)

"We" did not "let" google do any such thing, the big webhead
corporation did it for their own ends. You need to study usenet
history a bit better.

It's hilarious really. The Internet is so much more than most
people (and
ISPs) think it is. I still have several dialups to an ISP when I
worked for
them 10-years ago as a sysadmin. They sacked us all, replacing us
with a
cushy webadmin interface for their Customer Service staff. I just
logged in
as root and deleted the customer records before I left! 10-years
later..

Alas the side effects of supporting ignorance to save a penny.


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