[89890] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCPUNX:PGP's SMTP enforcer and ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cottrell)
Wed Nov 12 22:02:17 1997
In-Reply-To: <199711072330.SAA01730@beast.brainlink.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:06:43 -0800
To: phelix@vallnet.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Lance Cottrell <loki@infonex.com>
Reply-To: Lance Cottrell <loki@infonex.com>
SSH and a remote shell account can solve this problem. If they close port
22 it is time to change providers.
<shameless plug>
Cyberpass <http://www.cyberpass.net> provides anonymous shell accounts and SSH.
</shameless plug>
-Lance
>Recently, my ISP became the victim of spammers. Their response, like many
>other ISPs, is to block port 25 for all their dialup users. This means
>that all outgoing email must be routed through their mail server.
>
>Now that PGP has an SMTP enforcers, and that others will eventually follow
>with a S/MIME equivalent, we are literally an executive order away from an
>effective (if not 100% complete) ban on "inappropriate" encryption on email
>communications.
>
>All it would take is a national emergency, like the next war against Saddam
>Hussein, or a law that does not treat ISPs like common carriers and holds
>them liable for what their users do.
>
>And the worst thing of all is that most people won't even notice it. Hell,
>I was the only person on my end to notice that my ISP had blocked port 25.
>
>-- Phelix, "perfect paranoia is perfect awareness"
>
>
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