In the immortal words of Robert E. Seastrom (rs@seastrom.com):
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:
and, if you want to see a particularly broken example, buy "internet service" from t-mobile gprs in the states, port 22 blocked, no smtp relay, ... "walled garden" mentality from the get go.
The ssh client for the Danger Sidekick is extremely popular, and I don't think it would be if the scenario you mention above were true.
I suspect that Randy is referring to their "T-Zones Internet" plan, which is a bit different from their normal/real GPRS service. -n ------------------------------------------------------------<memory@blank.org> Being a Unix system administrator is like being a tech in a biological warfare laboratory, except that none of the substances are labeled consistently, any of the compounds are just as likely to kill you by themselves as they are when mixed with one another, and it is never clear what distinction is made between a catastrophic failure in the lab and a successful test in the field. (--M. Tiemann) <http://blank.org/memory/>----------------------------------------------------