[71162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Charter blocking Port 25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy)
Thu Jun 10 10:06:45 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy" <grisha@ispol.com>
To: Richard Parker <richard@electrophobia.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BCED4238.5DC79%richard@electrophobia.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I just tested it and it looks like it isn't happening anymore. But it
definitely was (smtp.east.cox.net), and made me look like an idiot in one
situation where I was convinced the recepient's filter is dropping my
e-mail. If you google usenet for "cox root password" you'll see other
people describing it.
To be fair, this was more likely a fluke and Cox isn't to blame since they
are just trying to do their best to deal with spam... My message was meant
more as a general warning to people, not an anti-Cox thing of any kind, my
cable modem has been very stable lately and throughput is excellent :-)
Grisha
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Richard Parker wrote:
>
> on 6/9/04 9:10 PM, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy at grisha@ispol.com wrote:
>
> > Cox also filters your e-mail on their SMTP server such that if it contains
> > both words "root" and "password" it will get silently dropped. This is
> > why I'm using an alternate port to bypass their SMTP server (or you
> > wouldn't get this e-mail).
>
> I find it hard to believe that Cox has secretly implemented a policy of
> dropping all outgoing mail that contains the phrase "root password." In
> fact, I just sent this e-mail to the NANOG mailing list via the Cox SMTP
> server smtp.west.cox.net, so if they have implemented such a policy, they
> haven't implemented it on all of their servers.
>
> -Richard
>
