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Originally Posted by Ken Stuart
PS In regards to your email address - it is not like your only choice for email is your ISP - just get a Gmail address and you can send through their servers.
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I have four Gmail addresses. And I have webmail for my own server and all my plethora of email addresses from there. However, I find webmail annoying, especially because I send a lot of email with "from" addresses that don't really exist (they're aliased to real ones, so I can sort, filter, and if necessary block the replies neatly). AT&T blocks port 25 to keep people from using their own servers for POP/STMP. They don't block port 465, though, which saved me some reconfiguring.
The point is, while I'm entirely capable of dodging their blocking -- and, as I mentioned, if they got too persistent, I'd just buy proxy service -- they're trying to do it anyway. They have no real reason to do so, except for one business reason: being able to charge people $100+ a month more not to block port 25. That is not the kind of company I want to do business with.