Port 25 and Static/Dynamic IP for Listserve SW

[David Fox]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Piper<pay_the_piper at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Are you saying then that they are personally reading the mail to decide if
> it is "spam" or a public listserve?
>
> That it is more than a technical matter of HW and automated SW to catch spam
> etc. and these ISPs are in effect listening in?

Not at all. They do DNS authorization to make sure that the mail is
not spoofed. There may be some checking (spamfiltering) to do
automatic checks of the email that use scoring systems to determine
whether the mail might be spam or not. But that's far from "listening
in" on the email conversations. Theoreticalky, an ISP admin could read
your mail, but there aren't enough hours in the day to be doing that.



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