[Novalug] Oh Crap -- DSL ISP s generally
Michael Stone
mstone@mathom.us
Wed Mar 28 14:32:38 EDT 2007
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:22:38PM -0400, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>On Wed, March 28, 2007 12:24, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
>> It was a convenient excuse.
[snip]
>Bandwidth costs money.
>ISPs pay for bandwidth.
>Controlling inbound port access controls potentially exponential costs and
>risk.
No, it was an excuse. If it was a bandwidth issue they'd be more
concerned about bittorrent than a vanity website on a home server. If it
was a security issue they'd block port 139/tcp.
It's product line differentiation, nothing more.
Mike Stone
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