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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by marvin on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @07:41AM (#3210486)
That's actually pretty sinister. I'm in Norway, and although there hasn't been any push to centralize and consolidate the e-mail servers in the name of spam, the EU data retention directive was passed here in April after lots of resistance.

I hoped that our neighbors were in a better position to fight these attacks on liberty online. Is privacy on the web really under this much pressure in Finland?

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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by haakon on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @12:56PM (#3211867)
Finland is pretty bad when it comes to these things. They block political criticism against its web censorship policy: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Finnish_intern...
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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @07:51AM (#3210516)
You may consider it sinister, but it's a fairly common practice all over the World for residential ISPs.
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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by Daniel_Newby on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @08:30AM (#3210625)
"Must use archiving ISP mail servers" is sinister.
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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by baudehlo on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @04:39PM (#3212934)
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.
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Re:Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:16AM (#3210769)
"Potentially troubling" maybe. I see no evidence that their motives are sinister.
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