All of that stopped when I carefully reviewed my ISP's AUP regarding
what is a grey area of offensive content or things that could be
construed as illegal or problematic from their perspective. Goodies I
have here like the complete archive of alt.suicide.holiday or the many alt.flame.[insert ethnicity] groups for example. You *cannot* host these things on the web on a Canadian ISP.
All of that stopped when I carefully reviewed my ISP's AUP regarding what is a grey area of offensive content or things that could be construed as illegal or problematic from their perspective. Goodies I have here like the complete archive of alt.suicide.holiday or the many alt.flame.[insert ethnicity] groups for example. You *cannot* host thes things on the web on a Canadian ISP.
If you need any help.... :P
Ha! Rob peels off the mask, reveals himself to be Jas Hud. ;)
Appreciate the offer but I've got bigger fish to fry at the moment... looking at moving outta here to suburbia.
But I've yet to see a hosting company without some sort of restrictive AUP. As soon as you see lingo relating to offensive or "hate speech" its no dice.
Not to get off on a rant but I'm worried that one day, ISP's will
restrict Telnet entirely. Eventually no ISP will give any understanding to some weirdo running a "bulletin board system" on port 23. It will be lumped into that security-risk catagory along with Cisco routers, IP cameras, IOT etc.
paulie420 wrote to Atreyu <=-
Not to get off on a rant but I'm worried that one day, ISP's will
restrict Telnet entirely. Eventually no ISP will give any understanding to some weirdo running a "bulletin board system" on port 23. It will be lumped into that security-risk catagory along with Cisco routers, IP cameras, IOT etc.
I hear ya - but hopefully there will ALWAYS be options to run whatever
we want. While the big guys might continue to move that way, I'm sure we'll be able to find, use or build solutions that keep US running. :P
Not to get off on a rant but I'm worried that one day, ISP's will restrict Telnet entirely. Eventually no ISP will give any understanding to some weird running a "bulletin board system" on port 23. It will be lumped into that security-risk catagory along with Cisco routers, IP cameras, IOT etc.
I agree, especially in Canada. I believe it to be inevitable.
Free Speech for Everyone?
I run on a port that is not 23 because I get tired of script kiddles spamming my bbs.
I run on a port that is not 23 because I get tired of script kiddles spamming my bbs.
Me as well. I think its best to use an non standard port, anyway. Just
to keep the children at bay :)
It doesn't matter. The script kiddies, as you call them, are just other servers pinging for open ports. They'll find you no matter which port
you move it to.
Except they're not looking for BBSes, most of those port scanners are
looking for vulnerable services. It takes time to scan 65355 ports, so
it's much quicker to only scan the ones you know the vulnerable services
you are looking for are running on.
I think it more becomes a problem when you're running on something like a commodore 64 or something. I don't know, I don't have a problem either.
It doesn't matter. The script kiddies, as you call them, are just other servers pinging for open ports. They'll find you no matter which port
you move it to.
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