Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread travis
Sure. Tell me how NH residents like myself are supposed to track down a criminal in Russia sending stuff from a zombie box in Korea and using a PO Box in Mexico. Why would this be your job? All I'm saying is that no one is even willing to entertain the reports. As far as I can tell

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:53:12AM -0400, Hewitt Tech wrote: I guess what puzzles me is that spam is almost always used on behalf of someone who is trying to get customers. It's those companies that should get burned. If spam is tracked back to them, and I don't see why it's particularly hard

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Kinz writes: When I find them (I get almost no spam at all these days), I sometimes follow the trail back to the original company's website, track down the hosting company, and send the spam with an explanation that the company is violating the AUP to abuse@isp/hosting compay. I find

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-28 Thread Hewitt Tech
- Original Message - From: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: Re: BitTorrent and Comcast? . . its a bit like asking a police officer, exactly how many MPH over

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-28 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The scammers should be tracked down one by one and made to face the courts. Sure. Tell me how NH residents like myself are supposed to track down a criminal in Russia sending stuff from a zombie box in Korea and using a PO Box in

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:10:10PM -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The scammers should be tracked down one by one and made to face the courts. Sure. Tell me how NH residents like myself are supposed to track down a criminal in

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-28 Thread Hewitt Tech
- Original Message - From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:10 PM Subject: Re: BitTorrent and Comcast? On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The scammers should be tracked down

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 27, 2004, at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote: What probably matters is whether their network monitoring people watch for, notice, and object to, the kind of activity that BitTorrent generates. Right - good luck pinning them down on it too - they allegedly like to change the rules to suit their

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Ted Roche
I've used BitTorrent to grab all the latest Linux ISOs (and to serve them back, of course) for a while now, and haven't heard any threatening noises from Comcast. Otoh, a friend got a warning letter from the MPAA for the movies he was apparently downloading. Remember, BT is not anonymous P2P

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:32, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Sep 27, 2004, at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote: What probably matters is whether their network monitoring people watch for, notice, and object to, the kind of activity that BitTorrent generates. Right - good luck pinning them down on it

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote: Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)? I can't get a straight answer out of Comcast customer support. They just quote the sections of

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, at 4:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)? When an ISP's ToS refer to running servers, they generally mean hosting services. They don't

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:52:15PM -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, at 4:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)? I can't

Re: Bittorrent Fedora Core 2 MD5 failures?

2004-05-23 Thread Ted Roche
On May 20, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Ted Roche wrote: From: Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 20, 2004 3:20:41 PM EDT To: GNHLUG Mail Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bittorrent Fedora Core 2 MD5 failures? Head's up to anyone considering using bittorrent to download FC2. After 48 hours of happy

Re: Bittorrent Fedora Core 2 MD5 failures?

2004-05-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 May 2004, at 3:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got suggestions for an ISO repair kit? Or am I SOL? If the MD5 checksum does not match, it means the CD image you have does not match the one that Red Hat/Fedora released. This most likely means one or more of the files on the CD

Re: Bittorrent Fedora Core 2 MD5 failures?

2004-05-20 Thread William Stearns
Good afternoon, Ted, On Thu, 20 May 2004, Ted Roche wrote: Head's up to anyone considering using bittorrent to download FC2. After 48 hours of happy up- and down-loading, I have disks 1 - 4 failing the MD5 test, although the rescue disk appears to be okay g. I was hoping that it

RE: BitTorrent

2003-04-04 Thread Travis Roy
I have to agree.. BitTorrent is GREAT. That's how I got my RH9 ISOs and it is very fast. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Macdonald Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BitTorrent Hi, Trying to download