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

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"Peter Pearson" <pxpearson at spamxcop.net> wrote in message 
news:d4og20$1jg$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> 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
> -- 
> Remove the two x's to get a good email address.


You could encrypt your e-mail but then you need to use the public key 
for the recipient of your e-mail (i.e., you encrypt it using their 
public key and they decrypt it using their private key).  They cannot 
interrogate its contents if it is encrypted.  Of course, the problem 
with encryption is that the recipient must already have an e-mail cert 
and have sent you a digitally signed message so you get their public 
key.  That's okay when you are sending your messages to known recipients 
with whom you have repeated communications.

You could stick the message in a file in a .zip archive that is password 
protected.  You'll need a 3rd party zip utility to get the password 
feature.  I suggest using the password feature because that encrypts the 
content of the .zip file since it is possible that the anti-spam scanner 
will look inside normal .zip files.  However, they might not look inside 
file attachments so you could just send a normal .zip file (i.e., one 
that is not password protected).  You could even send the password along 
with the e-mail that had the .zip file as an attachment since you are 
simply trying to get past their anti-spam scanner and are not really 
interested in securing the content of your .zip file.

You could get a freebie webmail account at Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail (go 
to isnoop.net for an invite) and send your e-mail through them.  Even if 
they block port 25 to prevent you from using an off-domain SMTP server, 
you can still use the webmail interface to these e-mail providers.

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