Bob Glover wrote:
> Guys, to keep the breakage to a minumim, just block scans from @homes
> corporate network. Use the whois command to find out the ip range. I
> think it is 24.0.0.0/16 IIRC.
<snip>
> As I understand it, the reason they scan is because the usenet admins
> worldwide pressured them make some sort of effort to prevent spam. It
> seems that too many @home users had insecure mail and news servers
> running on their boxes and they were being used by hackers (the evil
> kind) to send spam. Scanning for unauthoirized servers was apparently
> their answer to the problem.
<snip>
Although such a magnanimous rationale may have been the impetus, the
bottom line quickly took precedence. The main reason that @home scans is
to ensure that you are not running servers on their lower-priced product
packages. In Canada, their packages which allow running client-side
servers start at $169.99/month. If you are caught running servers on the
lower-priced plans, your connection can be terminated at their
discretion with no warning. I imagine there are ways to get around this
by using a proxy server though.....
Jack Bowling
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