The other problem I face is email interception and it has become worse in the last week, as  I am not receiving many of the emails.  A good article on email interception is

http://www.anonic.org/email-security.html

http://googlehackz.blogspot.com/2007/10/ur-e-mail-can-be-intercepted-check-how.html

This is not just limited to small ISPs however; in the case of a large ISP it is much more likely that it is a
renegade employee intercepting messages than the ISP itself, but the ease of interception is just
the same.