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		mike-cardwell on Nov 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from Decem... You may consider it sinister, but it's a fairly common practice all over the World for residential ISPs.

Daniel_Newby on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

"Must use archiving ISP mail servers" is sinister.

baudehlo on Nov 8, 2011 | | [–]

Email is a postcard, not a securely sealed envelope. If you want it to be securely sealed use PGP, then the archiving doesn't matter.

mike-cardwell on Nov 8, 2011 | | [–]

"Potentially troubling" maybe. I see no evidence that their motives are sinister.

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