On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:
> 
> And to further the mail objection against having to use my ISP's mailer
> to talk to *this* list is that Shaw in theory can now look at my mail
> traffic and if they don't like the Freenet project, could suspend my
> internet account in a similar manner to how PayPal suspended yours.
> 
> Please, please, please FIX this and allow direct MTA connections from
> subscribed members only.  Having to go thru the ISP mail server is a MAJOR
> privacy concern for me (I know from sysadmin experience that they can look
> at any mail passing thru their server at any time).

What exactly happens? I don't think the spam filtering we have on dodo
would arbitrarily discard messages from DSL hosts, they might be
slightly more likely to be held...
> 
> Just remember every ISP you're forcing subscribers to send their mail
> through may be the next 'PayPal'.
> 
> Also note that you have an identity of the sender (they subscribed after
> all) so if you get a spam from a subscriber you know who to tar and
> feather so there's no reason to use the overzealous IP blocking services
> on mailing list subscribers.
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Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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