I also don't be wanting to pay a Monthly/Yearly service charge for this stuff either. I hear you. ;-) I run my own server, though, and there's a charge for incoming bandwidth. Having tons of spam sent to the server just for me to delete it would be needlessly expensive and time-consuming. Instead, my husband and I both have accounts at Spamcop and all our mail gets sent there, where it's filtered (think of the spam trap as just a folder that spam gets put in; it's super easy to go through and put the non-spam - when there is any - into some other folder, and also put it on the "always pass" list), spam can be reported immediately with a single click, and the webmail service allows me to read the mail and sort it on the server (or I could forward it somewhere else or download the filtered mail directly from their server). So for me, it makes more sense to just pay the $45 a year for both accounts and keep the junk off my actual server. However, we do NOT use any mail filtering/rejection on our server, because we haven't got a means for users to see what's been rejected, and the idea of legitimate mail being rejected is, in my personal opinion, irresponsible. bonni

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