Hi all Thanks for your responses. I suspected it would be a longshot, but I figured it was worth asking anyway.
The discussion has been informative. Julian -----Original Message----- From: uknof [mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: 06 May 2016 07:51 To: Edward Dore <edward.d...@freethought-internet.co.uk>; Tom Hill <tom.h...@bytemark.co.uk>; UKNOF <uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk> Subject: Re: [uknof] Virginmedia On 5/May/16 20:50, Edward Dore wrote: > > > The person that we eventually spoke with at VM seemed genuinely sorry > that they had such a restrictive policy, so presumably this is coming > from management and not the techs. In general, restrictive peering tends to come from the Product and Sales teams of a business, these days. But you do get a number of engineers that are "proud" of their restrictive peering as well. To get you off their back, they'll send you to or blame their commercial team. Mark. Kind Regards, Julian Harse IT Compliance Officer [https://support.cwcs.co.uk/images/biglogo.gif] Tel: 0115 740 1234 http://www.cwcs.co.uk [https://support.cwcs.co.uk/images/icon-twitter.gif]<https://twitter.com/cwcs_hosting>CWCS on Twitter<https://twitter.com/cwcs_hosting> [https://support.cwcs.co.uk/images/icon-linkedin.jpg]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/cwcs-managed-hosting> CWCS on Linked In<http://www.linkedin.com/company/cwcs-managed-hosting> [https://support.cwcs.co.uk/images/icon-gplus.jpg]<https://plus.google.com/111933263284106712170/posts> CWCS on Google Plus<https://plus.google.com/111933263284106712170/posts> [https://support.cwcs.co.uk/images/icon-facebook.gif]<http://www.facebook.com/cwcshosting> CWCS on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/cwcshosting> Find Out More about Web Inspector<https://www.cwcs.co.uk/hosted-services/website-protection/> - Website Security, Malware Scanning and PCI Compliance all in One!