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

[John E. Malmberg]

Peter Pearson wrote:
> 
> The questions:
>  - Do you know anybody at Charter who has a brain and can make them
>    stop doing this?

I am a former Charter customer.  At the time I left them the previous 
contact I had with them is that they changed the default gateway for my 
static I.P. address and did not notify me.

It took well over a month to figure this out.  The last e-mail I got 
from Charter was a notice that the call was closed with the reason 
"customer misconfigured equipment".

That equipment was set to the last setting that Charter had supplied 
with no changes for over a year.

>  - 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?

Get with the the other users and with the local politicians that are on 
the franchise board.  Even though they only regulate the TV, you will 
find that the someone will pay attention to franchise board from the 
cable company, especially if it is close to contract renewal, or if any 
of the terms of the contract are not being complied with.

> 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?

There are plenty of free ones out there.

I can SMTP auth through port 587 on a gmail server for instance.  And 
that is just one of my options outside of my ISP.

Once you set up the gmail account through the web page, you never have 
to go to that web page again.  Full IMAP and SMTP access is available.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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