I don't see where SSH is prohibited in that first paragraph. It's too broad to be legal.
I think they are simply afraid of someone serving large amounts of web pages and sending large amounts of email. -----Original Message----- From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph Baden Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] [OT] Comcast users in the area After perusing the ToS, it looks like I need to concern myself with the following bullet points: # use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network ("Premises LAN"), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers; So it looks like SSH is out. I'll consider setting up a polling version instead. # use or run programs from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN, except for personal and non-commercial residential use; Fortunately this is non-commercial use, so I think that this should be fine. # restrict, inhibit, or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to use or enjoy the Service, including, without limitation, posting or transmitting any information or software which contains a worm, virus, or other harmful feature, or generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to use, send, or retrieve information; This is so vague that I'm worried that I won't be able to get around this one with the technique I'm planning on using. Essentially, my goal is to inject a little bit of traffic into a certain queue, enough to detect that a subsequent packet is using the same queue (but, if I do it correctly, not enough to be noticeable to a user). Technically this would impede traffic, but it would be far, far less than if you, say, watched a YouTube video. I'll talk to my advisor about this to see what I should do. # resell the Service or otherwise make available to anyone outside the Premises the ability to use the Service (for example, though wi-fi or other methods of networking), in whole or in part, directly or indirectly. The Service is for personal and non-commercial residential use only and you agree not to use the Service for operation as an Internet service provider or for any business enterprise or purpose (whether or not for profit); Unfortunately, I'm not totally clear on the meaning of this, but I don't think I'd be violating this. Summary: I'll come up with a way to do this that doesn't use SSH and I'll talk to my advisor about whether the amount traffic will be a problem according to the ToS (and maybe we'll contact Comcast about it). I'll probably start another thread on the list next week after I've addressed these problems. Thanks for all of your advice, and I hope some of you will be willing to help when I'm a little more prepared to get going with this. :)
