[klug] Just had to share...

[Ben]

yea I know
                 They use Debian for their mail server at paradise, I know 
because I entered it with telnet on my *nix to see if I could send an email
through their server without it being traceable by the receiver, It worked!
Also when I was with Paradise they not only pinged me often but they
basically hacked my *nix firewall PC and when I rang and complained
they said that they were checking that I wasnt useing ip Masquerade to
run several computers? Which was weird because they didnt seem to
jack about unix or Linux yet they were onto IP Masq?
buggered if I know, but I moved to ihug and my connection has
been awesome and a great speed with accellerator (for dial-up)
dont know what their DSL is like!

Ben
:-)

> oh no that didn't happen to me, I was just quoting from the site, damn now
> that would have been funny though.
>
> Although one time Paradise tried pinging my IP address and complained that
> it wasn't responding, I had to explain to them about ICMP ping and that my
> firewall at the time was dropping the packets they had sent, kind of
> strange.
>
> It's also kind of sad when ISPs don't support the same operating system
> that pretty much runs the internet!
>
> /rant over :)
>
> > really,
> >          I am so sick of NZ view of linux, It really makes you wonder
> > that's why we need more active LUG's and events to change
> > the view's of the public, You should have said "we'll because Microsoft
> > is so broken and brain damaged I use Linux"
> > thats a shame aye, what provider was it?
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > :-)
> >>
> >> While surfing around I came across this website:
> >> http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_os.shtml
> >>
> >> and this little gem;
> >> "I was calling to sign up with a new DSL provider. When the guy asked
> >> what operating system I was using, I said, "Linux." I was put on hold
> >> for five minutes, and then a supervisor came back and told me, "You
> >> can't use Linux to connect to the Internet. It's a hacker tool,
> >> anyway." I almost fell out of my chair."
> >>
> >> Should make a few of you all laugh :)
> >>
> >>
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