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Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Tue Feb 17 19:04:46 2004

On 17 Feb 2004, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:

> Randy Bush <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > and, if you want to see a particularly broken example, buy "internet
> > service" from t-mobile gprs in the states, port 22 blocked, no smtp relay,
> > ...  "walled garden" mentality from the get go.
> 
> Strangely enough, the only complaints I've heard about t-mob GPRS (aside from
> whininess about the 800ms latency typical of GPRS) involved a protracted
> effort, eventually successful, to get them to understand that having
> *something*, *anything* in the in-addr.arpa for their address pool was a Good
> Plan...  and that was a year or two ago.

whilst in miami i found roaming onto t-mobile to be less than useless (att was 
barely any better altho i could dial on att). gprs on both networks was slow and 
kicked me after a couple minutes of being connected, however i could ssh albeit 
briefly!

Steve