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On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:29 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > At about 3:17 AM on Thursday the 17th, Comcast imposed a filter on port 25 > (SMTP) inbound to my cable modem. > > Around mid-morning, I realized that the only mail messages I was getting > were generated at my house. I checked my logs, verified functionality > -- everything was working properly except inbound SMTP from external > sources -- checked my firewall and rebooted it, just in case. Then I > called Comcast. > > That took a while, of course. After four tech support people each > listened to my problem description and then asked me to restart Outlook, > I talked to a supervisor who told me I was a spammer and they would not > be removing the filter under any circumstances. > > This morning I discovered that, in fact, this has been rolled-out across > the country. > > I made arrangements to leave Comcast, of course. I've only been a customer > of this network for ten years. > > The freedom to manage your own email is essential in today's legal > environment, in which the government appears not to need a subpoena to > read your email if a third party stores it for you. > > -dsr- >
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