[Gllug] Why are ISPs so stupid?

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 17/11/2005, "Tethys" <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:

>Perhaps because the Internet != the WWW. There are people that
>only use email or IM, for example. Also, using a proxy on a machine
>elsewhere tunnelled through something other than port 80 would
>effectively give you free net access simply by not paying your bill.
>Not a good long term business model if you're an ISP...

Erm, for the kind of people who are going to be stung by this kind of
thing, the Internet == WWW.  It doesn't have to work for every
conceivable customer, just the most common.

And when I said redirect port 80, the implication was block every other
port.
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