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northern lad (northlad@morpork.free-online.co.uk) wrote:
:   i happened to work in an isp for a while, so i can tell you for a
: fact that this is bull =) they chart everything which goes through
: their connections, and they send _nothing_ to microsoft. hell, most
: computer savvy people hate microsoft anyway! *grin*

: ~daniel
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Well, I'd like to know what ISP you worked for.  I don't know of many
ISP's that would monitor all traffic on all ports and refuse to send 
some.  What if they're sending a simple http request on port 80?
That's all they'd need to do.  Or what if its going out on port 23
(telnet), or 119 (nntp), or 6667 (common IRC port)?  None of these
ports are normally watched for anything.. and the overhead this would
put on a server would require you to have a lot of extra processing
power.

Besides, if an ISP is monitoring all this crap, then I sure as hell 
don't want to use them.  I spend a lot of time telnetting, and using
rare ports for special web pages or things like VNC (virtual network
computing).  I also am typing my passwords for all these.  If they're
sniffing out my packets, then they can get my passwords.  This is
unacceptable.

And what about mail...?  Does this ISP record all mail?  Do they read
they're users mail?  This is an invasion of privacy.  

I'm probably getting myself worked up over nothing.  I highly doubt you
understand the ramifications of what you said.  No ISP would "stop" 
something like this from going to MS.  They send "_nothing_" to MS.
Does this mean I can't go to MS's homepage (this requrires sending
an http request)?  Does this mean I can't send email to MS?  

If the above sounded like a flame, it probably was.  But as a rule,
ISPs woldn't care if this kind of traffic went through they're 
systems or not.
Andrew
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