Re: Re: [Nolug] Re: cable modems

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:39, Charles wrote:
> Ron,
> It isn't likely that these ports will be opened any time soon for residential
> customers. Good bad
> or otherwise it is the current policy. Whether I agree or not I have to
> enforce the policy.

Well, sure, no one expects you to risk you job over that...

Who can we contact to petition that the policy be changed?

> Cheers,
> Charles
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:08, pcguy1@cox.net wrote:
> > Yes, we are blocking 25 & 80, and 1434.
>
> Is there any chance that 25 & 80 will be un-blocked, and, say monitoring
> installed, so that only the abusers (i.e. high traffic http & smtp) or
> people who've been hacked (and are now spewing forth nimda, code red,
> etc) would get zapped?
>
> You'd get a lot more customers that way. Well, mostly geeks, but they
> pay too !!
>
> > > From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > > Date: 2003/01/27 Mon PM 04:16:10 EST
> > > To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Re: cable modems
> > >
> > > Hi, Charles.
> > >
> > > While we've got you on the line: does Cox still block ports 80 & 25?
> > >
> > > Of course, none of us would mind if you blocked 1434...

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