On Thursday 14 September 2017 11:19:45 David Wright wrote:

> On Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 10:51:43 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Begin rant:
>
> [...]
>
> > Since they without doubt have a backdoor for the snooping agencies,
> > this exposes my mail to these people for 1000's of times longer (If
> > I do it once a week for instance) compared to fetchmail pulling and
> > deleting it every 3 minutes.
>
> Oh, I see. So if you can just get your emails in and out of the ISP's
> system within three minutes, this will catch the snoopers napping/
> on coffee break/gossiping round the water cooler/however the
> agency's monitors take their breaks. Do you have a similar strategy
> for crossing toll bridges? Like climbing the piers and then sprinting
> across, so avoiding the approaches where those pesky toll booths
> are located.
>
> Cheers,
> David.

Well, truth be known, they probably have their own copy squirreled away 
for later perusal 10 milliseconds after it hit a transport medium 
anyplace.  They don't like people using sigs like mine.

But the reduced time exposed on the isp's servers makes me feel better 
anyway. :)

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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