Comcast, dynamic DNS service

[ward at pong.be (Ward Vandewege)]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:37:36PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> A bigger concern would be that they would do this, then use their
> position to create 'members only' services for comcast users, under a
> non-public TLD like '.cable' or something similar. They could provide a
> wide variety of services -- everything from their current searching
> services (a la
> http://www.comcast.net/qry/websearch/?query=myrtle+baptist+church&cmd=qry&safe=on&x=11&y=14
> ) to streaming media downloads -- but provided that they did things
> right, they would never have to share these things with non comcast
> customers.

Yeah - I recently came across a Canadian ISP that does this for POP3/IMAP
(!). I just couldn't believe it - here is this Canadian, travelling with her
laptop somewhere in Europe. She wants to check her e-mail with her mail
client, and _her ISP simply does not allow it_ outside its own network.  She
had to use the ISP's (crappy) webmail. Reasoning: according to the ISP's
website, security. I really wonder what the ISP is afraid of - third parties
stealing their customers e-mail? It just does not make sense.

Needless to say I recommended that she changes ISP. I can't remember the
ISP's name but it was a big one...

Ward.

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