I just tested it and it looks like it isn't happening anymore. But it definitely was (smtp.east.cox.net), and made me look like an idiot in one situation where I was convinced the recepient's filter is dropping my e-mail. If you google usenet for "cox root password" you'll see other people describing it. To be fair, this was more likely a fluke and Cox isn't to blame since they are just trying to do their best to deal with spam... My message was meant more as a general warning to people, not an anti-Cox thing of any kind, my cable modem has been very stable lately and throughput is excellent :-) Grisha On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Richard Parker wrote:
on 6/9/04 9:10 PM, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy at grisha@ispol.com wrote:
Cox also filters your e-mail on their SMTP server such that if it contains both words "root" and "password" it will get silently dropped. This is why I'm using an alternate port to bypass their SMTP server (or you wouldn't get this e-mail).
I find it hard to believe that Cox has secretly implemented a policy of dropping all outgoing mail that contains the phrase "root password." In fact, I just sent this e-mail to the NANOG mailing list via the Cox SMTP server smtp.west.cox.net, so if they have implemented such a policy, they haven't implemented it on all of their servers.
-Richard