Comcast, dynamic DNS service

[Jack]

My topical typo for them is M$N.com :)
><> ... Jack


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:50 PM, John Chambers <jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Oops! I just noticed that I missed a fat-finger typo, referring to msn.comas
> man.com.   Oh,  well;  'a'  is  just  one key off from 's'.  Actually, out
> of
> curiosity, I checked and found that there is a man.com site. It seems to
> be a
> gay  men's site that advertises it self as a "search site".  Somehow, I
> doubt
> they did what I said they did.  OTOH,  msn.com  has  developed  a  bit  of
>  a
> reputation for sleazy business practices.  No surprise, I guess.  ;-)
>
> Sometimes you find fun things when you mistype a host name. F'r instance,
> why
> would  what's  obviously a site targeting gay men have "Men Seeking Women"
> as
> one of the items in their nav list? To show that they don't discriminate?
>  Oh
> well, it's off topic here.
>
> | Matthew Gillen wrote:
> | | It's beyond me why anyone would use their ISP-provided email for
> anything but
> | | interacting with the ISP anyway.  It's as much a vendor-lock-in
> mechanism as a
> | | "service" provided to the customer...
> |
> | In some cases, it's because they want to be  able  to  look  at  your
>  email.
> | Remember a few years ago, when man.com was caught picking photos out of
> their
> | customers' email and web sites, and using them in advertising?  It really
> hit
> | the  fan  when people found out, and they agreed to stop doing it.  But
> first
> | they tried justifying it by saying it was legal because they stated in
>  their
> | Terms  of  Service  (ToS)  document  that  any files stored on their
> machines
> | became msn.com's property.
> |
> | Fact is that the management, especially  the  marketers,  at  many
>  companies
> | consider  anything  they can trick you into "giving" to them is theirs to
> use
> | in any way they feel. If they can make a profit selling information from
> your
> | files, they feel that it's their right to do so. Some of them even argue
> that
> | they have an obligation to their shareholders to do so.  This should be
>  good
> | enough ground to avoid any "service" that puts your files on their
> machines.
>
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