[ale] DirecTV & BellSouth

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

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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