You, that is a customer using a consumer Time Warner cable modem, are NOT ALLOWED to run a private email server on your connection. Period. This is because countless spammers in the past have abused this to send spam.
Nowadays, if you want to send lots of email you are required to pay email providers like Yahoo and use security technologies like DNSSec and DKIM. IF YOU DON'T DO THIS YOU WILL BE BLACKLISTED BY ISPS FOR BEING A SPAMMER!
Did you even read this notice that you posted? http://timewarner.computer-repair-springfield.com/Used%20Supporting%20Documents/Time%20Warner%20additional%20violations/Claim%20from%20Zen.Spamhaus.jpeg
This says Spamhaus blocked for running an unauthorized mail server.
You've also got ads for a 9/11 "truther" book in your little site.
You're a paranoid nut who doesn't understand how ISPs work.
I had to create an account here because this article is so misleading.
I did some research and this is actually just a bug in that particular Cisco ASA:
"Yes, if you upgrade to the newest firmware (version 8, my ASA is running 8.0(4)) then it support TLS in the esmtp inspection policy."
It also may be that they're using the latest firmware, but they haven't explicitly enabled STARTTLS, which is turned off by default. https://stomp.colorado.edu/blog/blog/2012/12/31/on-smtp-starttls-and-the-cisco-asa/[1]
So Golden Frog could have just contacted the ISP and asked them to fix their ASA.
In any event, this is definitely not malicious on the part of the ISP. It is normal for consumer connections to interfere with SMTP server traffic from consumer hosts. This is to prevent spam.
By having this appliance in place this ISP shows that they were being good to customers. The alternative is just to block all SMTP traffic, and many ISPs do that.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Bob Smith.
Re: TWC IP PROVIDER COMPROMIZED BLACKLISTING DISSENT
Let me explain this to you AGAIN.
You, that is a customer using a consumer Time Warner cable modem, are NOT ALLOWED to run a private email server on your connection. Period. This is because countless spammers in the past have abused this to send spam.
Nowadays, if you want to send lots of email you are required to pay email providers like Yahoo and use security technologies like DNSSec and DKIM. IF YOU DON'T DO THIS YOU WILL BE BLACKLISTED BY ISPS FOR BEING A SPAMMER!
Did you even read this notice that you posted?
http://timewarner.computer-repair-springfield.com/Used%20Supporting%20Documents/Time%20Warner%20additional%20violations/Claim%20from%20Zen.Spamhaus.jpeg
This says Spamhaus blocked for running an unauthorized mail server.
You've also got ads for a 9/11 "truther" book in your little site.
You're a paranoid nut who doesn't understand how ISPs work.
Just stop.
The article is 100% wrong
I had to create an account here because this article is so misleading.
I did some research and this is actually just a bug in that particular Cisco ASA:
"Yes, if you upgrade to the newest firmware (version 8, my ASA is running 8.0(4)) then it support TLS in the esmtp inspection policy."
It also may be that they're using the latest firmware, but they haven't explicitly enabled STARTTLS, which is turned off by default. https://stomp.colorado.edu/blog/blog/2012/12/31/on-smtp-starttls-and-the-cisco-asa/[1]
So Golden Frog could have just contacted the ISP and asked them to fix their ASA.
In any event, this is definitely not malicious on the part of the ISP. It is normal for consumer connections to interfere with SMTP server traffic from consumer hosts. This is to prevent spam.
By having this appliance in place this ISP shows that they were being good to customers. The alternative is just to block all SMTP traffic, and many ISPs do that.