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To be pedantic, when you provide content to Facebook, you are serving them data, right? When you upload pictures to Dropbox, you are serving, right? Slingbox? S
by freeopinion 8y ago
To be pedantic, when you provide content to Facebook, you are serving them data, right? When you upload pictures to Dropbox, you are serving, right? Slingbox? Security webcam? Facetime?
I don't think there is a good enough definition of "server" or "serving" for such restrictions to be enforceable except is an arbitrary way.
I have an MUA that retrieves email from a server and sends email to a server. It might run in a browser and interact with GMail. It might be a mobile app or Thunderbird or Outlook. It might be sendmail or postfix or Exchange. Which of these are "servers"? Which are banned and which are ok?
- pathseeker 8y agoUsually an ISP defines it as something that allows ingress unsolicited connections. i.e. put a stateful firewall in front of it and if it requires ingress allow rules to function, it's a server.