Anti-recommendation: Comcast.

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 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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