We have a "gaming" club on campus which, oddly enough I was able to become an officer in after I suggested they needed to cover games other than paper and pencil RPGs and Magic.

So because of that we got one of the Network Analysts here as the staff liaison for our club and after much nagging (bunch of BBC articles on video game studies helped too) and a talk with the ResLife policy people, we can play games :D

Submit the IP/Port info to your tech people... it can't hurt. Fact is most colleges have a T1 or better and since Telnet is a legal internet protocol that most people don't use for file sharing, there is no legal reason why a college should be able to block it since you pay for internet access there. Make note of the fact that DGate takes at most 56k level bandwidth, no one else's "legitimate" research will be affected.

It might be good to note too that you could download porn at 1.5 megs a second from your dorm internet connection and question why you can't use telnet which is way less shady.

One such article here:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/techn...052482.stm