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I've always wondered, when I see such things. I can easily name a half-dozen simple technical measures that will _drastically_ cut the incoming spam load to a mailserver. They're all fairly well known, even. Yet ISPs refuse to implement them, usually citing the "but it might refuse legitimate mail!" mantra, apparently preferring to lose legitimate mail randomly and silently to overload than to lose legitimate mail obviously and controlledly to filters, a mindset I just don't get - especially since the "legitimate" mail that will be lost is all defective to at least some extent already (because such defects are what the filters test for). A good example is sleep-before-banner. It kills an awful lot of ratware dead, is difficult at best for them to adapt to, and won't kill anyone who bothers to pay attention to the minimum timeouts specified in RFCs 1123 and 2821. I've seen it said that as little as 15 seconds is effective (I use 90). /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B