Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and the future
To : Atreyu
From : paulie420
Date : Sat Dec 07 2024 07:53 pm
At> Appreciate the offer but I've got bigger fish to fry at the moment...
At> looking at moving outta here to suburbia.
Nice
At> But I've yet to see a hosting company without some sort of restrictive
At> AUP. As soon as you see lingo relating to offensive or "hate speech" its
At> no dice.
At>
At> Not to get off on a rant but I'm worried that one day, ISP's will
At> restrict Telnet entirely. Eventually no ISP will give any understanding
At> to some weirdo running a "bulletin board system" on port 23. It will be
At> lumped into that security-risk catagory along with Cisco routers, IP
At> cameras, IOT etc.
I hear ya - but hopefully there will ALWAYS be options to run whatever we want. While the big guys might continue to move that way, I'm sure we'll be able to find, use or build solutions that keep US running. :P
