[Gllug] New EU data retention rules approved

[t.clarke]

Forgive my ignorance - I am fascinated to learn that Wanadoo already 'proxy'
SMTP traffic and that it is easy to do.

Surely, if we connect directly to the smtp port of a customer's machine,
our ISP, in order to 'proxy' has to 'intercept' the entire data stream
and process it for smtp commands - with loads of customers doing direct smtp
surely this workload would be enormous?  I have always assumed that ADSL
costs were relatively low because amongst other things the ISP was effectively
just acting as a 'switchboard' and doing very little traffic monitoring other
than basic bandwidth usage statistics?

Tim
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