IP Port 80

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, James McDonald wrote:
>   
>> My ISP sends out email telling me they are shifting the DNS resolver to
>> a new rack and don't worry our secondarys will be taking care of the
>> load while it happens sort of messages. What I mean is the technical
>> staff send the clients information on what is happening _not_ the
>> typical flowery, written by a marketing hack stuff one gets from the
>> larger ISPs. We have fixed IPs and about a 5GB plan and for about 1/3 of
>> what Australian Telstra provides . I think they have implemented a
>> system where if your box generates tonnes of spam every http request
>> get's directed to a page saying clean your box or you will see this page
>> forever notification. But other than that it's all open (happy contented
>> sigh)
>>
>> I thought that ISP wanted people to publish content?
>>     
>
> Not in the US.  Some provide 'webspace' for folks who want to put up
> random stuff, but for the most part the assumption is that if you're at
> home, you're surfing the web, listening to 'legal' music, and playing
> games, and nothing else.
>
>   
Which reminds me. I get 60MB of my own webspace with the ADSL account 
aswell.

What worries me is that Australia follows the US just about everywhere 
in trends, culture, iraq etc.