Comcast, dynamic DNS service

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 04/03/2006 03:19 PM, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> Yeah - I recently came across a Canadian ISP that does this for POP3/IMAP
> (!). I just couldn't believe it - here is this Canadian, travelling with her
> laptop somewhere in Europe. She wants to check her e-mail with her mail
> client, and _her ISP simply does not allow it_ outside its own network.  She
> had to use the ISP's (crappy) webmail. Reasoning: according to the ISP's
> website, security. I really wonder what the ISP is afraid of - third parties
> stealing their customers e-mail? It just does not make sense.
> 
> Needless to say I recommended that she changes ISP. I can't remember the
> ISP's name but it was a big one...

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...

Matt