I use a system with a very accurate spam filter, which I check regularly and remove any legitimate mail (not that much gets caught in there). However, we also have a server of our own, and we pay for incoming as well as outgoing bandwidth. So, basically, we have to pay for these sleazy bastards to inundate our users with their unwanted bullshit. Nice, isn't it? We've now started to implement some fairly aggressive spam filtering on our server, although at this point it only tags the spam, rather than rejecting it. When the filter is "trained" to high enough accuracy, we'll start outright rejecting mail that has a rating above a certain level. It's theoretically possible that some legitimate mail will get caught (not likely, given the levels we'll be using), which is worrisome, but we can't keep paying for all the crap being sent. It just doesn't make sense to do so. As for the Russian spammer, well, I'm never happy to see someone blugeoned to death, certainly, but there is the concept of karma at work here... shrug bonni

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