BT (the incumbent telephone company in the United Kingdom) are in the process of spending millions of pounds on upgrading their network to an all-IP core. However, they have failed to consider 21st Century protocol support, preferring to insist that IPv4 is enough for everyone. Haven't they noticed the IPv4 exhaustion report yet?

My ISP, Andrews & Arnold (a great, geek-friendly UK ISP) have recently come up with a rather telling response to all the junk legalese footers you see on e-mail from big businesses. Their mailserver points you to a terms and conditions page whenever you connect to it; they believe that these terms are as enforceable as those in the footers.

It'd be great to see if a company that automatically adds a legalese footer to outgoing e-mail had enough courage to try and enforce them against AAISP; I'd love to see a judge trying to understand just what was going on in an SMTP exchange.

I've got 5 more mod points; if there's a comment out there you'd like to see moderated, point me at it.

Edit: All gone.

Today's item on things I wish I'd known earlier: eeprom(8) exists and works to interrogate and set the OpenPROM on OpenBSD/sparc64. Would have saved me a few reboots and some mess with serial console when I was trying to work out why I was having trouble with bridging across a QFE (setting local-mac-address?=true in OpenPROM got it working).

Post a CID link if you see comments that need more moderation, even your own; I've got points again, and I've been smoking that crack pipe :)

Edit: Pipe empty. Points gone.

5 shiny mod points, to use up by 2005-02-21. If you see a comment that you think needs them, post me a link.

Edit: All gone.

Just got back from a short break to find 5 mod points, expiring tomorrow; post soon, and I'll use them on any post you care to name.

Edit: They've gone.

I have mod points. Tell me what to do with them :)

Edit: All used.

Mod points available until 22nd November 2004. Let me know of anywhere that needs a few applied.

Edit: Expired

Give me a CID link, and I'll go moderate any comment you like.

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The usual; post a CID link, and I'll go moderate any post you find.

Edit: All used up.

The usual; I have mod points until 2004-10-11; give me links to comments to moderate, and I'll go do so.

Edit: All gone.

I've no real time to use them, they expire on 2004-09-30, so point me at comments you want moderated.

Edit: All spent.

I seem to be in luck on modpoints; you have until 2004-09-22 to point me at comments to moderate.

Gmail invites still on offer if you point me to comments I like.

The usual, post a CID link, and I'll go moderate any comment you name. My points expire on 2004-09-16, and I'll moderate anyone's comments, even your own.

By the way, as a test to see if anyone reads this thing, I'm giving away Gmail invites to the three "best" (in my eyes) comments I get pointed at.

Edit: Used them. Gmail invites still on offer if you point me at comments I like.