Re: Junk Mail -- Ways to Reduce

In article <c_qdnUpzUsar3xXUnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mr. Uh Clem" <uhclem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jolly Roger wrote:
My ISP is Earthlink, so for my home email, I use their SpamBlocker
service. It's a challenge/response service that sends a "challenge"
email to people who email you asking that they visit a web page to
request access.

Alas, C/R is abusive too, because it will send those challenges
to people whose address was forged. In essence, you are foisting
your spam filtering problem onto innocents.

Well not *all* messages that come in trigger it. Most SPAM messages are
recognized as "known spam" by Earthlink. Those don't get responses. Only
"suspect messages" trigger a C/r. To me, it's an acceptable compromise.

Unless you actually can control responses during the SMTP
transaction, there is no good way to "bounce" mail after it
has been received by the server. This is one reason I'm
contemplating getting a Mini to act as a mail server. I
will have complete control of what gets in and what doesn't
and will not have to rely on after the fact filtering.

I have a mini that could do just that (in fact it does run POPfile for
all the mail clients in my house - even my iPhone), but I'm not willing
to invest the time to set up a mail server and SPAM filtering solution
on it at the moment.

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