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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield7/23/13 3:39 AM |
Now my ISP reads email, humor and woe
I checked my GMail account and saw a piece of spam from some place called terravore dot net.
(Humor: I've heard of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, but an Earth eater, that's ambition.)
Anyway, I sent an email out through my ISP with the above joke and the terravore dot net domain name legitimately spelled out, like domain.name. This was in the message body, not the header.
My ISP rejected it with an "unknown error." The first thing I tried was to break up that one snippet with "dot" surrounded by spaces.
It worked.
And I discovered my ISP reads (filters) my email. Whether they maintain a database and sell my privacy at a set rate, I don't know.
Good morning.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real7/23/13 3:47 AM |
Gmail has always read your mail. The target you with ads that way.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield7/23/13 4:08 AM |
Yes, but that's not the point of the post.
The point is, my paid ISP is reading (filtering) my email.
It also recognizes that they may, or may not "sell my privacy." IOW, "target you with ads."
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT7/24/13 2:52 AM |
Your ISP is the NSA??
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH7/24/13 4:56 AM |
There is a big difference between "filtering"...
...and "reading". All ISPs filter mail in an effort to keep Spam and malware under control. That is vastly different than a person actually reading your email or even from electronically data mining what you write for commercial purposes. Trust me, you WANT your ISP to filter your mail, otherwise you'd be buried in virus-laden Spam every day.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield7/24/13 7:10 AM |
Yeah, it was interesting to actually see filtering in action - on the outbound side no less.
Take a look at their website:
http://mymdu.com
laugh if you want, it's stable!
I don't think this ISP is sophisticated enough to process throughput like the big G. I'm glad they are filtering, and surprised. To wit: I send them a paper check through the USPS every month because their online billing is usually botched.
BTW: MDU=Multiple Dwelling Unit, condos.
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