VPN Article (Potential Spam)

[Matt Harwood]

Hi all,

During yesterday's meeting we discussed the VPN article currently in the Pitch queue. It seemed a little like paid promotion / spam to Paul and I, and I said I'd look in to it.

I can't find the author's contact details on FAS in the magazine group, but I did find his LinkedIn profile, in which he shows he is a PR Consultant writing such articles to promote clients.

In order to message him there, I need a premium account, which I don't have.

Anyway, I think it's pretty clear the article wasn't written with the best intentions but a similar article without the promotion might have some merit.

I'll put in a pitch ahead of next week's meeting with a germ of an idea and we'll go from there, if agreed by all?

Many thanks

Matt Harwood
IT, Web and Business Consultant

Phone: [phone]
Web: http://mattharwood.com
Email: [e-mail]

[charles profitt]

Agreed.

On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 19:39 +0000, Matt Harwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During yesterday's meeting we discussed the VPN article currently in
> the Pitch queue. It seemed a little like paid promotion / spam to
> Paul and I, and I said I'd look in to it.
>
> I can't find the author's contact details on FAS in the magazine
> group, but I did find his LinkedIn profile, in which he shows he is a
> PR Consultant writing such articles to promote clients.
>
> In order to message him there, I need a premium account, which I
> don't have.
>
> Anyway, I think it's pretty clear the article wasn't written with the
> best intentions but a similar article without the promotion might
> have some merit.
>
> I'll put in a pitch ahead of next week's meeting with a germ of an
> idea and we'll go from there, if agreed by all?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Matt Harwood
> IT, Web and Business Consultant
>
> Phone: [phone]
> Web: http://mattharwood.com
> Email: [e-mail]
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[Matthew Miller]

FWIW, I get spam from people wanting to pay for "content placement" in the
magazine just about daily.

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Matthew Miller wrote:
> FWIW, I get spam from people wanting to pay for "content placement" in the
> magazine just about daily.

If I were going to write an article about setting up openvpn with a
VPS - could I start by assuming the reader can purchase a VPS with 
Fedora (or CentOS) installed (or get a small free one from a Certain Provider)?

The scenario, which I've encountered multiple times in both homes and
with small business ISPs, is that the ISP not only does not provide IPv6
itself, but takes active steps to prevent use of normal alternate 
IPv6 providers (e.g. blocking protocol 41).  Thus, a VPN is the only
solution for IPv6 connectivity.

The difficulty is that you would normally have a gateway (running Fedora
or CentOS, of course) for the home network.  An article could just cover
connecting a mobile laptop to a Fedora/CentOS VPS running OpenVPN server
over random internet (via Wifi/mobile/etc).

[Link Dupont]

I hear a lot about wireguard too. I imagine an article covering 
wireguard would be pretty well received.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:44 AM, Stuart D. Gathman 
 wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > FWIW, I get spam from people wanting to pay for "content placement" 
> > in the
> > magazine just about daily.
>
> If I were going to write an article about setting up openvpn with a
> VPS - could I start by assuming the reader can purchase a VPS with 
> Fedora (or CentOS) installed (or get a small free one from a Certain 
> Provider)?
>
> The scenario, which I've encountered multiple times in both homes and
> with small business ISPs, is that the ISP not only does not provide 
> IPv6
> itself, but takes active steps to prevent use of normal alternate 
> IPv6 providers (e.g. blocking protocol 41).  Thus, a VPN is the only
> solution for IPv6 connectivity.
>
> The difficulty is that you would normally have a gateway (running 
> Fedora
> or CentOS, of course) for the home network.  An article could just 
> cover
> connecting a mobile laptop to a Fedora/CentOS VPS running OpenVPN 
> server
> over random internet (via Wifi/mobile/etc).
>
> --
>          Stuart D. Gathman 
> "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
> a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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