--On 22 August 2002 01:16 +0200 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 5:35 PM -0500 2002/08/21, Peter E. Fry wrote: > >> Relay through your upstream (hierarchical approach)? i.e. Register >> your server(s) with your provider, who is presumably trusted (registered >> with the global system). > > This is the approach I recommend, and have recommended for years. That's all well and good until said ISP's upstream servers go slow/break/take an age to deliver a message you can deliver from your own host immediately. [It also doesn't scale particularly well] I thought I was buying *Internet* access anyway... shouldn't that mean I have the right to talk which hosts I want on which port I want?
