[45326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Walden)
Thu Jan 31 11:35:54 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:32:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Andy Walden <andy@tigerteam.net>
To: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jim Shankland wrote:
> opener, etc. will all be IP-addressable. I'll be damned if I'll spend
> an extra $5/month for my refrigerator to surf the web, and I'll bet I'm
> not alone :-).
Without rehashing the Slashdot discussion, no, I really don't think you
are, and with the large market for home networking and steps people
are taking toward security with NAT routers and pesonal firewalls, I
think it would be an uphill battle to enforce a policy such as this. I
guess we will see how it shakes out.
andy
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