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Originally Posted by Toto
Sorry, you're way off there Moldova.
There is no way VM checks every outbound email going through its network, sets aside spam/security breach emails then passes them to a person to read.
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The sheer volume of it counts against it. Where abuse has been reported (through
this site
) or otherwise, Virgin can (and do, like any other ISP) look into a situation, but it's not that common. What you'll tend to see is accounts flagged for sending a large number of outgoing, usually spam, with a wee note to say "get this person to contact the abuse team" on the account. While Virgin have the capacity to look at outgoing email, they don't. It just isn't worth it. Abuse reports are almost invariably predicated on emails that have
already been sent, at which point they're outwith your control anyway, even if you sent them consciously rather than because your machine was hijacked. I think that might be what Moldova meant, it's just the framing got confused
So before anyone else gets paranoid, Virgin have the capacity to look at outgoing email, but don't. They'll look at email that has been sent through their network if it's flagged as abusive or similar, but that's quite distinct.