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Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup



On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:56:06 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

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> On 03/29/07 19:12, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:59:48AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> >> Maybe, but I doubt it.  Usually ISPs just block 80, 25 & 20/21.
> > 
> > IOW, they have no clue what's really going on .. :-)
> 
> I'm sure they have many people who do.  Remember, though, that as
> much as The Eeeeeeeeeeeeevil Government would like it, ISPs can't
> monitor every port that every customer is using.  So, they use the
> blunt instrument of blocking popular ports.

And by doing this, they stop many users who aren't very savvy, and with
very little effort on their part.

Celejar



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