The technology exists, and is ALREADY developed. The problem is that it
costs (except for Mozilla). You may well be able to
buy the support from your ISP. One vendor to the ISPs is Brightmail (my employer
filters mail from the internet with it, and it works pretty well.) I could pay
my ISP $10 per month and they would filter it with Brightmail or something
similar, but the FREE filter built into Mozilla works REALLY well.

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Chuck Tribolet

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Silicon Valley: STILL the best day job in the world.


"Peggie Hall" wrote in message ...
Chuck Tribolet wrote:
Peggie, that wouldn't work. The spamsters have taken to infecting peoples
computers with a virus that turns the computer into a very quiet robot
for the spamsters.


Ok...but trust me, the technology DOES exist that would allow ISPs to
figure out to block spam before it gets to their users' mailboxes. It
will cost them $$ to develop it, which means it will prob'ly take
legislation to make 'em do it. And that's a real shame...'cuz that only
means that all the ISPs' talk about blocking spam is nothing more than
talk. Yahoo doesn't even block incoming spam from spammers using
spoofed Yahoo addresses...but how hard can it be to match return
addresses on incoming mail against your own bloomin' account list and
block all that doesn't match an existing account??

Peggie
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Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
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