Virgin email - spying or nanny?

So what are you going to do about this nannying/snooping?

Here are some ideas for you:

Complaints,
Virgin Media,
PO Box 333,
Matrix Court,
Swansea.
SA7 9ZJ

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/

Let us know how you get on or if you don't want to post your results can you mail me at yea-right@careface.me

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by xocemp

So what are you going to do about this nannying/snooping?

Nothing.

/pointless thread.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by xocemp

/pointless thread.

No it's not. it's information about what has changed to yours and my email accounts on VM. and asking what peoples opinions of it are and if they think it's a form of spying or nannying.

My mail hasn't changed, I'm not a VM customer, however my ISP has the same policy on their mail. So I use Googlemail and hushmail.

You got people opinions and argued against them, dragging out a thread of which you have no opinion of one way or another and aim to do nothing about having this restrictions made against you by VM.

Originally Posted by xocemp

And lets not forget

The same old same old.

[Toto]

Well, if nannying means, as has been pointed out before, that limiting attachment types can mean the reduction in Malware, then I am all for it.

Sadly there has been no tangible evidence presented here that VM have any interest what so ever in the content of your email - spying. All we have had is opinion, and some opinion has a personal agenda as its platform, or fuelled by the usual Internet snooping paranoia.

Moving on.

[Jon T]

If your AV software scans(as most, if not all do) inside archive(zip, rar etc), then while your email is stored on Virgin's(or google's) server's then you really should expect them to be want to be able to scan every file that is stored.

For this, and other reasons, I am not allowed to store password protected archives on the work network, neither am I allowed to use Microsoft Office's password protection mechanisms.

At the end of the day, email's not much good for file transfer anyway, 20Mb is only enough for two decent quality/size photographs.

Sorry Gary but I think this is a pointless thread, it was biased from the start as you gave the options of spying or nannying both negative to Virgin Media, how about a third, consumer safety? What next, do you want them to remove the block on SMB ports(tcp 137-139) as it may be seen as nannying?

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by xocemp

My mail hasn't changed, I'm not a VM customer, however my ISP has the same policy on their mail. So I use Googlemail and hushmail.

ok we'll exclude you from yours. what ISP do you have that have the same policy?

You got people opinions and argued against them,

Yes. debated/corrected them.

dragging out a thread of which you have no opinion of one way or another

That's one less worry off my mind then. I thought I did have an opinion about it?

and aim to do nothing about having this restrictions made against you by VM.

We're all guilty of that. we're helpless when it comes to things like this. you're just the little man fighting the big man. nobody really listens.

[Toto]

Originally Posted by Jon T

<snip> but I think this is a pointless thread, it was biased from the start as you gave the options of spying or nannying both negative to Virgin Media, how about a third, consumer safety? What next, do you want them to remove the block on SMB ports(tcp 137-139) as it may be seen as nannying?

Some fair points.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Yes. debated/corrected them.

As you are not a member of staff I think you are the one who has been corrected throughout this thread by the people who deal with this day in day out.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Jon T

Sorry Gary but I think this is a pointless thread, it was biased from the start as you gave the options of spying or nannying both negative to Virgin Media, how about a third, consumer safety?

Or how about a fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh?
those are the 2 I chose. they might happen to be both negative unintentionally. people have said that it could be for consumer safety. why not all 3. it is possible to have a positive and a negative at the same time.

if I posted about a child abuser, asking monster or evil. would we have to have a positive such as nice man?

What next, do you want them to remove the block on SMB ports(tcp 137-139) as it may be seen as nannying?

Well it's not spying. you can't use it for them to spy.

Originally Posted by xocemp

/pointless thread.

Agreed. I have never seen so much hot air about a standard security feature. I really cant see the point in this any further, its just moaning for the sake of it. Closed.