Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | CenturyTel censorship at it's best CenturyTel has seriously got into the censorship game. They censor ICMP. They censor outgoing emails with the subject "hello" or "hi"! They are now censoring traffic to www.sco.com. Which doesn't matter now, since there is no sco.com. But one wonders if they'll have access reenabled the instant sco.com is back up. If not, well then, that's really taking control of what users are allowed to see. Personally, I don't care about SCO - I wouldn't mind in some ways seeing their website permanently blocked. But it's the precedent it sets. They're blocking a great deal of ports. Now that Bresnan cable internet is available here, it sure is tempting (of course being that it's ex-Comcast, would it truly be any better?)... |
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jassing
join:2004-02-09
Anderson Island, WA | you need to contact centurytel.
I've been on them for a while now about ping & tracert - very BASIC functions -- the more people complain, the better we'll be.
Also; regarding the subject of "hello" and "hi" -- they're "censoring" a lot more -- instead of installing something called "virus scanning software" and then deleting infected emails (becuase the from is always spoofed, so why reply) they block subjects.
btw: A lot of companies are doing this -- becuase when the hello/hi virus went around; it caused a huge drain on resources for the scanner to kick in for so many messages -- Centurytel (at least as they've told me) will stop the subject filtering as soon as the virus threat has dropped substantially -- what that "substantial" amount is; I dunno.
complain about ping/tracert -- that's the only way to get them to put it back. |
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| i believe that centurytel advertises itself as a "full service internet provider" in which case by censoring subject lines of email, (i couldn't send one with "information" as a subject) they are violating that "full service" premise. Maybe if enough of our fellow centurytel customers threatened legal action they might get off their high horse and give us back the basic services required for checking out their claimed connections.
Furthermore, I would really like to see them learn the difference between BANDWIDTH and LATENCY. I am tired of my poor latency on the net and in other applications. |
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jassing
join:2004-02-09
Anderson Island, WA | you can go one step further -- after years of getting my NNTP thru centurytel; they changed providers, so mid month they'd 'use up their allocation' -- so I finally went with a 2.95/mo NNTP service...
If there were a "suecenturytel.net" website with a petition, I'd sign it. |
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