[TriLUG] Roadrunner

[Ben Pitzer]

William,

Read the AUP closely.  There really is nothing in there that says anything
about servers.  It just says abuse.  Now, if you run a web server that
suddenly starts maxing out your bandwidth regularly, then that's an abuse
issue.  We give you great download speeds, but don't expect them to be
constantly saturated.  If they are, we get bent out of shape a little,
because it typically means you're doing something that DOES expressly
violate the AUP, like running a pr0n or warez server, for example, or having
an open relay mail server.  Otherwise, do as you please, and RR will live
and let live.  Naturally, however, I don't speak for the RR legal dept in
this matter, plus, I'm writing this after coming home from a friend's b-day
party where I consumed 4 or 5 rye bourbons.  Just read the AUP carefully,
like I said.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer

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"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety
 deserve neither liberty nor safety."
 --Ben Franklin--






> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
> Of William Gomeringer
> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 6:26 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Roadrunner
>
>
> Hello everyone. It's been a while since I posted here. I just got my
> internet back up. It was down from the ice storm. I had been a BellSouth
> DSL customer for almost three years. I moved right after the ice storm
> and decided that I was tired of being charged $50 to transfer my DSL and
> $50 to transfer my phone service everytime I moved. I got rid of both,
> upgraded my cell phone plan, and decided to try out Roadrunner. I am
> glad I did. I have clocked speeds of 2.9Megabits per sec so far, twice
> as fast as my old DSL. Anyway, I have a question or two about Time
> Warner's strictness when it comes to running Web servers, email servers,
> telnet and such. Now, I know the contract says you are not allowed, but
> you are not allowed on DSL either and I did for almost a year. I'm not
> doing much. I have a server running Apache, postfix, telnet, etc. It is
> mostly used by me when I am on the road as I keep all my school work in
> my home directory on the server as well as my cd collection. So, how
> lenient is Time Warner in the Chapel Hill area when it comes to running
> servers? Does anyone have any advice they could give me? Unplug the
> server now before the FBI knock down my door, bound me, and confiscate
> my computers? Thanks. William
> --
> William Gomeringer <neisture at pihlopase.mine.nu>
>
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