[brlug-general] Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Scott Harney]

willhill wrote:
> Thanks, but no thanks.  I don't want to have to beg a person anymore than I 
> want to be rejected by a machine.
>   

hmmm..

Well, you may want start using encryption (GPG) wherever you can with 
whomever you can because pretty much every mail server your messages 
pass through are going to be scanned -- both text and body. It's not 
just Cox that's doing that.  There's probably not an ISP out there that 
doesn't do spam/virus filtering on both inbound and outbound mail 
nowadays.  Those that don't are probably in everybody else's inbound 
block lists.

For Instant Messaging, I use the GAIM Off The Record encryption plugin: 
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr (apt-get install pidgin-otr in Debian/Ubuntu).