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How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering?

Posted by Zonk on from the making-me-nervous dept.

Erris writes "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 in the US. 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 it be better to cut off people with infected computers than to censor the internet?"

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  1. AT LEAST THEY TELL YOU!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    At least they tell you, unlike DIRECTNIC, who kills your site over a complaint sent about an eMail you never know they killed your site - they may not even kill it, just add kiddie porn, messages claiming you are a spammer, or spam messages to it... or they give the user name and password to an alleged spam victim.

    Usually, they do this to screw a Christian like myself, because they have lots of Muslims working there.

    All this, and never once were they willing to provide me an alleged spam eMail - they just said they had received a "very convincing" email.

    Andy