[SpamCop-List] Re: ISP censors outbound mail, nixing spam discussions

[Ron B.]

Peter Pearson wrote:
> The problem:
>   My ISP (Charter Communications, may their kidneys rot) drops email
> I send that looks like spam, sometimes making it very difficult to
> conduct a correspondence discussing, for example, a phishing scam.
> Charter does not notify me when they drop my email, so I have to send
> a second "Did you get that message?" email after each at-risk missive.
> 
> The questions:
>  - Do you know anybody at Charter who has a brain and can make them
>    stop doing this?
>  - Am I overlooking some obvious workaround?
>  - If Charter is doing this out of a sincere and intelligent
>    desire to fight spam, is there a strategy I could suggest
>    that would let them do that without preventing me from working
>    toward the same goal?
> 
> Considerations:
>  - Charter owns the cable that comes to my house, so getting them
>    out of the picture is difficult. I guess I could buy SMTP service
>    somewhere else. Any recommendations?
>  - I guess I could ROT13-encrypt mail to avoid triggering
>    the Annihilator.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> - Peter

Plenty of webmail providers, gmail, hotmail, hushmail, cotse, even 
spamcop.net etc.