isla0005 at tc.umn.edu said: > I am wondering how picky the Cable guys can get.. > I am running the server for a little while with few of my friends > as users logged in most of the time. We are not doing any spamming > or mp3 upload/downloads or warez. Mostly running math apps. Although they'd probably be upset about any complaints, I suspect that their main concern is bandwidth usage. You're presumably being charged a 'residential connection' rate, so they could conceivably object to anything that doesn't fit within (their idea of) normal 'residential' usage. > A good question comes in when I send mail to over thousands of > people. I maintain a list and send emails with updates in every > two/three months to all these folks. I use perl & sendmail to > get it done. Will there be any problem in future doing this ? If they have any automated anti-spam monitoring in place, this would have a good chance of being caught by it. > this is not spamming by definition as these people chose to recive > emails. Can the cable company shut me down for this? If you read the fine print, they can probably shut you down for anything they want. I suggest that you check with them (and also with your ISP if that's not your cable company) before doing anything involving setting up pulically- available services or bulk emailing. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org