[Coco] Coco printers

[Dave Philipsen]

Hi, Gene.  I don't know if it's important to you or not nor do I know 
who your service provider is but I have Comcast here in Illinois and 
they normally block port 25 on residential installs to prevent email 
problems.  But if you have enough patience and work your way to the 
higher levels of their customer service hierarchy you may be able to get 
the port unblocked.

I explained to them that I was running a mail server and the first thing 
out of the rep's mouth was, "Oh that's against the rules...running a 
server...blah, blah, blah."  Well, I read the terms and found that it is 
only against the rules if your server is made available to others for a 
charge or for people other than those residing in your household.  After 
reasoning with them and asking for someone who had more authority I was 
finally able to get them to unblock port 25.  It's a shame that when we 
pay as much as we do for internet service that we can't have more 
control over it.


Dave Philipsen


On 5/12/2015 6:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2015 17:33:45 abqpenmaster wrote:
>> Is geneslinuxbox.net your website? It says "server not found"
>>
> Gotta use the whole thing, including the :6309/gene.  The line in the sig
> s/b clickable and you are here.
>
> I just checked at localhost:6309/gene and it was there.  I have a router
> problem if its not there for you.  The :6309 gets it off the ISP blocked
> port 80, (thats exactly so they can BS you into using, and paying them
> for, their own server farm, but I'm a cheap old coot) and I figured I
> may as well pay a little homage to the 6309, so that became the default
> port I use.  The router does a port forward to this machine.
>
> That port is not otherwise committed, but despite that, googles robots
> found it the first day it was up all those years ago.
>
>> SR
>> Albuquerque,  NM USA
>>
>> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Gene Heskett
>> <gheskett at wdtv.com> </div><div>Date:05/12/2015  12:28 AM  (GMT-07:00)
>> </div><div>To: coco at maltedmedia.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [Coco]
>> Coco printers </div><div> </div>
>> My $0.02 (adjust for inflation since 1934)  ;-)
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>> --
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>>
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett