FW: [Apc-euroir-ws] "RIP Act" could result in massive surveil lance -- BBC

[Owen Blacker]

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David Howe, quoting me:
>
> > At home, I subscribe to FreeservePlus (their ADSL service).  One 
> > assumed that we have a POP3 account provided by Freeserve as a result. 
> >  I have never bothered finding out how to check it (indeed, it's just 
> > occurred to me that it would prolly be where they would send us mails 
> > to say everything's going down for an hour, or what have you, and so I 
> > ought check it).  Everyone who might possibly use our ADSL connexion at
> > home  already has personal email accounts (several of them, usually).
>
> Possibly worth noting that many ISPs are thinking of blocking 
> outbound 25 connections from their dialup users (and IIRC, 
> there is a voluntary dialup pool "blacklist" already) as an 
> "anti-spam measure". would also restrict you quite nicely to 
> sending email only via their servers......

It wouldn't stop you using Hotmail (or $other_webmail), Hushmail or SSH to
a shell server (all three of which I do, for example), though.

However, I neglected to mention previously, that FreeservePlus does proxy
SMTP connexions (if that's the right way to put it).  It's quite useful
when wanting to email by telnet, as I just telnet to ~anywhere~ on 25 and
end up on mail.pol.co.uk (or whatever the box is called).

Yet another reason to promote the widespread use of crypto, imho.  :o)


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