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Journal by Erris on Thursday January 31, 2008 @04:26PM

A member of the Baton Rouge LUG noticed that Cox checks the text of outgoing email and rejects mail containing key phrases. I was aware of forced inbox filtering that has caused problems and been abused by other ISPs in China and here. I've also read about forced use of ISP SMTP and outbound throttling, but did not know they outbound filtered as well. How prevalent and justified is this practice? Wouldn't be better to cut off people with infected computers than to censor the internet? Why do we insist on supporting Windows when there are free alternatives?

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Incredible. (Score:2)

by Macthorpe ( 960048 ) writes:

It's almost like you want everyone on the internet to know your identity.
Oh my (Score:1)

by dedazo ( 737510 ) writes:

I wonder who this LUG member might be. Is it the same LUG member that thinks "M$" keeps a file on him? And claims someone "smeared" him by confusing him with - get this - "Slashdot users Twitter and Erris"?
http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/2008-January/018156.html [brlug.net]
Nah, it couldn't possibly be.
Sometimes I wonder what it feels to be a habitual liar while accusing everyone else of the same thing. But mostly I don't.

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