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In article <slrn8li6rg.1dp.tmb@cow.tm-jabarton.freeserve.co.uk>,
Trevor Barton <tmb@tm-jabarton.Xfreeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Hear hear, I agree entirely ... if yo'all insist on keeping connections
>up with no reason then inevitably someone has to pay for the extra 
>modems and incoming connection that freeserve will need to supply not 
>to mention BT's extra costs (although I'm sure they could fund it out 
>of their profits!).  That'll be all of us who pay.  Dial on demand
>using diald or something similar takes all of 10-15 seconds to connect 
>on ISDN and saves resources.  It's already a problem in the States with
>overloaded exchanges and it'll soon be here.

Another advantage is that all of the time you're disconnected, and only
you can bring up the line, you're not vulnerable to outside attack.[1]

Even if I was permanently and irovecably connected (via ethernet or
something) I'd be tempted to use the firewall or even ifconfig to disable
the interface when not in use.

To think I used to have a machine left running on the open university
network.

 - Richard

[1] You're still vulnerable to inside attack but thats a different story.

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