Message-ID: <20220808134347.7f8f9877@ryz>
Date: 8 Aug 2022 13:43:47 +0200
From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@remove-this.posteo.de>
Subject: Re: I'm still trying to reconnect with the Telecom Digest
server
Am Montag, 08. August 2022, um 05:34:52 Uhr schrieb Bill Horne:
> Recap: Last Monday, the Cable TV company here in Burnsville, North
> Carolina was taken over by new owners, and I found out that I couldn't
> use ssh to log in to the Telecom Digest's home machine, which is
> in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
So your computer is in your home network that is provided by the cable
company? You can't connect to a different machine in the internet on
port 22?
This is a big fault, please tell that your ISP. If they refuse to fix
it (I assume they block it), switch your ISP.
Message-ID: <20220808214442.GA33973@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 21:44:42 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: I'm still trying to reconnect with the Telecom Digest
server
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 01:43:47PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am Montag, 08. August 2022, um 05:34:52 Uhr schrieb Bill Horne:
>
> > Recap: Last Monday, the Cable TV company here in Burnsville, North
> > Carolina was taken over by new owners, and I found out that I couldn't
> > use ssh to log in to the Telecom Digest's home machine, which is
> > in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
>
> So your computer is in your home network that is provided by the cable
> company? You can't connect to a different machine in the internet on
> port 22?
>
> This is a big fault, please tell that [to] your ISP. If they refuse to fix
> it (I assume they block it), switch your ISP.
Sir, your comment makes it clear that the government departments
responsible for regulating the Internet in the place where you live
are much more expert than those we have in the United States. In the
U.S., the Internet is largely unregulated, and Internet Service
Providers can do almost anything they want: some of them justify "port
blocking" as a "safety" feature, claiming that things like ssh are
used to "carry viruses," or for "software piracy," or for "pirate
music downloads."
IMNSHO, what American ISPs are trying to do is reform the Internet
into a one-way-only content distribution system, which their users pay
for and they get to profit from. Things like "ssh" or other methods of
using computers to work from home are, in their view, done at their
sufferance, and they obviously think that home users should pay a
tithe to their ISP for the privilege of not having to pay for gasoline
or gasoline taxes or mechanic's bills.
I envy you.
Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <20220808181431.5ea9f2e0@ryz>
Date: 8 Aug 2022 18:14:31 +0200
From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@remove-this.posteo.de>
Subject: [France] Orange switched off speaking clock
The French telephone network operator and ISP Orange switched off the
speaking clock service at 1st July 2022.
France was the first country that operated an automatic system for the
speaking clock.
I don't see a real reason for that, such a service could be provided
easily and very cheap via a computer and VoIP.
Many countries still provide this service, but with costs.
A German telecom museum operates an old speaking clock from 1958 with
tapes - everybody can use it via a public telephone number.
Here you can see that device in action:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/70Q0IQowWB8?autoplay=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer
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