On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 02/11/2013 11:21 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: I tried to send you private mail to roll at stupi.se on January 12th, and it just bounced. I was offering you an OpenVMS 8.4 Alpha CD image. Let me know if you need it. That would be cool. Bouncing mail, that's becouse Comcast don;t tell you they do not provide connectivity to the whole Internet.. And my mail sever is on the part they don't offer you. Last time I checked, it was like this, if someone has an absolutely imperatively important need to run their own mailserver, (mail going in both directions), they needed to make a specific request. And then convince or confuse the offended ISP. I do have that need, and I do run a mail server, and I've made no such request. I'm on a Business class connection, which shares neither bandwidth, nor netblocks with dynamics, nor support staff. (my netblock *used* to be dynamic, but hasn't been used that way for several years) For example, the last time I called them, the *first person who answered the phone* logged into a nameserver and corrected a PTR record for me. (I checked!) Now, the routing issue Peter mentioned...that's a different matter, which I will need to check out. Lots of people and a few companies use my network, and I've not had any issues thus far. I've always despised the "cable company" ISPs, for obvious reasons, but Comcast Business has surprised me by being absolutely top-notch from (my) day one. Comcast, and Cox, and Verizon, and even AT&T (down south), and possibly Megapath, (mine), normally want to know why. But strangely enough Megapath, doesn't care about a personal webserver living and running here. All or nearly all of the consumer services suck. They are like Wal*Mart...super cheap up front, but in the end you pay in some other way. Don't do it. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA Hello! Megapath was formed from the merger of Covad and Speakeasy and one other. (Perhaps a smaller version of Megapath.) They aren't originally consumer grade, but Covad was being badly resold by AT&T and to me for about eight years from 2002 to 2010 and towards the Winter of 2009 really screwed things up very badly. But regarding the other bozos, yes I agree with you. Now what's that cardboard box doing with those two cats and one Wookiee? ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."