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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:22:22PM -0800, David Gillett wrote:
>   It's not *us* you need to convince.

Only some of *us*.  ;-)

>   Comcast's "home" cablemodem AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) forbids a whole
> range of business uses of the service.  The only thing that distinguishes
> VPN use on that list is that it's relatively simple for them to
> pre-emptively block it (rather than trying to *detect* it), and so they do.

If a PRE-EXISTING AUP forbids it, also fine.  Then it's my fault for
not seeking it out - maybe theirs a little for not pointing it out
clearly to new users.

B U T - blocking tunnels, as someone else has pointed out, is the lazy
way out instead of the intelligent way out.  It even requires more work
if the ISP wants to make sure I haven't just decided to take my tunnel
to another port.

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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