Osirusoft blacklists the world

[Derek Martin]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:12:56AM -0400, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, at 2:23am, invalid at pizzashack.org wrote:
> > And today, Slashdot had an article on exactly why:
> > 
> >   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/171248
> 
>   Imminent death of the 'net predicted!

Yeah, we all used to laugh about this, but now it's actually
happening.  How many of us have or have had service which blocked
incoming our outgoing ports?  [Mine currently blocks outgoing traffic
on port 25, no doubt in a vain attempt to stop spam, thus making it
very difficult for me to check to see if my quite legitimate mail
server is accepting connections on port 25 from remote networks.  This
sucks.]

Any time you can't do something that you should be able to do because
your ISP is placing (rather arbitrary, I might say) limitations on
what you can or can not do, the Internet dies just a little bit
more...  It doesn't matter if such actions are well intentioned.  They
make it impossible for you to do something that the Internet was
expressly designed to do.  It doesn't matter if what you want to do
technically violates your TOS, because such restrictions wouldn't need
to exist if everyone would play nice.  All such restrictions are a Bad
Thing(tm).  Particularly because they do absolutely nothing towards
solving the problem they're intended to solve, and manage only to
frustrate legitimate users.

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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