Re:Helm: Personal Email Server
by js2 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:55AM
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For AT&T, that restriction is only on dial-up accounts:
> with respect to dial-up accounts, using any software or device designed to defeat system time-out limits or to allow Customer's account to stay logged on while Customer is not actively using the IP Services or using such account for the purpose of operating a server of any type;
AFAIK, AT&T does not prohibit running a server on broadband accounts.
What's being done by Helm is not much different than using Back to my Mac or Plex or SlingTV.
In any case, these ToS are over-broad and most customers probably violate them every day, especially the copyright provisions. The ToS are not enforced to the letter but allow the ISP to terminate an account if the violations are egregious. I don't think running a Helm server would get you booted.
> with respect to dial-up accounts, using any software or device designed to defeat system time-out limits or to allow Customer's account to stay logged on while Customer is not actively using the IP Services or using such account for the purpose of operating a server of any type;
AFAIK, AT&T does not prohibit running a server on broadband accounts.
What's being done by Helm is not much different than using Back to my Mac or Plex or SlingTV.
In any case, these ToS are over-broad and most customers probably violate them every day, especially the copyright provisions. The ToS are not enforced to the letter but allow the ISP to terminate an account if the violations are egregious. I don't think running a Helm server would get you booted.