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On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:35, Rob O'Donnell wrote: Going from memory, we have a Majordomo-based mailing list on a windows machine for the museum email list, using whatever Microsoft's email server software is called these days. It wouldn't cope with resending to people using greylisting, and so messages from the mailing list never got delivered. I occasionally hit problems because I run a local mailserver at home, pulling mail down from a couple of yahoo accounts. My IP address changes once every 6 months or so, but it is still technically a dynamic address, which means very occasionally I find I can't send mail to someone because their ISP barfs at my IP address. Of course the reason I set up a local mailserver in the first place was because the amount of spam would fill up yahoo mail quotas if mail wasn't checked / downloaded at something less than an 8 hour limit. As Sellam says, the only cure is a change in the law. I don't think there is a way of fixing the technology to work because there are simply too many different combinations of platforms and software out there. What works for one setup might be totally incompatible with another. (I was grumbling yesterday because of the music industry complaining about pirate music downloads, whilst the big online music vendors all seem to assume that you have an ipod or access to windows media player - I hope the spam issue doesn't go the same way, with a half-assed solution that just excludes a lot of people) cheers Jules