[wplug] Pittsburgh DSL questions

[Lance Tost]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Steven Leach wrote:
> > 2. They ask if you are running a "server" that they are given your
> > "administrator" password so that they can login any time to make
> > sure you are obeying the terms of service
> 
> Wow... that is way beyond unreasonable and into the realm of creepy.  I 
> saw the statement on their website that you were not allowed to have a 
> password on your website (because you might be running a commercial 
> site...) but would never would have imagined that they would actually 
> expect  to be given access to any account on my system, let alone root 
> access!

They don't.  I've had a password protected family website up for two years 
now with no questions asked.

> Ouch, Downtime would be especially bad since I'll be running my own 
> email server rather than relying on an isp provided mailbox.

Not really since email delivery is designed to handle some downtime.  Plus 
I have not had the same experience regardiny downtime as some of the 
others here I guess (see previous two posts).

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>