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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