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1. Joshua Judson Rosen

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   Why is Port 25 for Email Submission Not Supported?

   Comcast's rationale for blocking outbound SMTP traffic from their residential-class customers.

   • comcast
   • port25
   • smtp
   • spam
   1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 21:41:30 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      Somehow I'd thought the world had moved beyond wholesale port-blocking for spam-control. Guess not.
   2. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 22:07:36 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      The whole "[any computer on a residential-class line] should never send email at all" reasoning is incredibly vexatious: EVERYONE should be sending their #email directly from trusted node to trusted node without having to let their ISP cache and read their messages.
      1. Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 22:18:46 EDT Maiyannah Bishop

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         @rozzin But if we're not in corporate silos how is the NSA et al supposed to intercept our messages easily?
         1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:24:45 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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            @maiyannah, I encourage those who do fear law-enforcement being hampered by routine privacy to just explicilty CC NSA on all their e-mail.
            1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:28:33 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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               @maiyannah, actually..., that reminds me of my "BCC the US Consistution to the NSA" project: https://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/journal/politics/bcc-the-NSA.html
               1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:50:17 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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                  Hm. I should have used "M-x spook" on that message before sending: http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/emacs/emacs/emacs_29.html#SEC308
                  1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:52:10 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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                     (I wonder if I just got Fermilab in trouble...☺)
   3. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 22:17:53 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      Apparently I can still do #P2P #SMTP on #Comcast "business" lines; the price of #privacy / #autonomy is $60/month extra + 2-year commitment.
   4. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:31:55 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      See also: John Gilmore on SMTP relays: http://www.toad.com/gnu/verio-censorship.html