[ale] DirecTV & BellSouth

[James P. Kinney III]

I can certainly agree with the rant entirely. 

However, for the vast majority of the unwashed masses plugging their new
"I bought it a Walmart HP Pavilion  Windows XP" machines into the cable
modem or DSL line, a raw connection is like handing a 3-year old a
loaded gun. 

Maybe there needs to be a technology competency test ...

Nah, bad idea. Let Darwin rule. Give all a raw line at let the losers
pay for the extra support they need.

I'm available for a fee.

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 10:35, David Corbin wrote:
> Chuck Huber wrote:
> 
> ><rant>
> >Getting back to shopping around, I'm disheartended somewhat by many of
> >the acceptable use policies that have been presented in this thread.
> > Everything from "you can't do this" to "we're watching everthing you do".
> > Quite frankly, I'd rather assume the duty of adequately protecting my
> >network rather than rely on a bunch of script kiddies to do it for me.
> >(Those who think they know what they are doing are very annoying to those
> >of us who do.) I'm looking for an ISP that will give me a pipe to the
> >internet and forget all the other crap.  I don't need web space.  I don't
> >need email addresses or POP3 or IMAP or SMTP.  I don't need a firewall. 
> >I don't need spam filters.  I don't need a "MyAnything".  And most of all I
> >don't need someone telling me how people are not allowed to communicate
> >with me (a.k.a port blocking).  What I *do* need is a link to the internet
> >with a static IP address.  So sell me the service, sit back, and shut up!
> ></rant>
> >  
> >
> Here here!
> 
> That's been my philosophy for years.  Maybe someday the service 
> providers will catch up....
> 
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