Phorm and Cookies

[Roland Perry]

In article <00b001c89589$706478b0$e57ea8c0@Jinja>, James Firth 
<james2@jfirth.net> writes
>> p.s. I doubt that competition law could force an ISP to route SMTP
>> traffic.
>
>What about the case that I am with an ISP isp-x.com and they only offer me
>SMTP email addresses @isp-x.com.
>
>I know that if I move IPS I will loose my email address.
>
>The workaround is to find a third-party SMTP mail provider to continue to
>handle jfirth.net
>
>But the network is blocking access to third-party SMTP servers, so I am
>forced to use the ISPs email account and then become locked into their
>services, because email addresses are not portable.

All the regulators I've ever spoken to would say "there is plenty of 
competition in the market, choose an ISP that doesn't block port 25".

In any event, aren't there already ISPs that won't allow you to post 
emails "from" @jfirth.net, rather than "from" @isp-x.com, unless they 
are also hosting jfirth.net for you? Third-party email services will 
handle your inbound jfirth.net email, of course, but not all of them 
offer an SMTP service to *send* it (and/or do so, but charge extra).
-- 
Roland Perry