Hi, A bit of a "me too" post in that I use the anything(a)domain mechanism, and have recently been given the benefit of SpamAssassin both at work and on my personal mail, but I haven't seen anyone mention the disposable email address services like sneakemail.com. Despite the execrable name and user interface, it's useful if you don't have control of your own domain and mail-server. They have finally introduced "instant" address generation, so you can give out addresses off-line... there are other services, vive le difference. But I agree with the poster who said the RBLs are on their way out, they are too crude a tool and an estimate of the false positives they blocked, IIRC, was about 11%. When I read the horror stories here about how the Net is being strangled in order to choke spam, it's scary. Bob Frankston comments: "I'm afraid of the spam hunters. They are trying to find all those bad people and get rid of them. It seems obvious that there is something called Spam and we must get rid of it. Having a simple term, even if it's still a trademark for Hormel's Deviled Ham, has misframed the problems." http://satn.org/archive/2003_02_02_archive.html#90265861 What you are seeing in all the growingly successful approaches is edge and collaborative filtering, after all, what may be spam to you is hugely amusing to me. I have a collection of that which you call 419. They are hilarious. One man's ceiling is another man's floor and all that. I think by having a user configurable edge, doctors and legislators can email about "sex" without having to resort to neologisms like "secks." And, with a good user interface, most users (I read even Dean's grandmother, you agist pig! :) can control what they receive. It's one of my favourite RFC quotes: "In contrast with paper-based communication, it is interesting to note that the RECEIVER of a message can exercise an extraordinary amount of control over the message's appearance. The amount of actual control available to message receivers is contingent upon the capabilities of their individual message systems." -- RFC822 In the case of spam, it's literally the appearance of the email in the users mail box. Spam is another problem that wasn't going to be fixed in some heavyweight core, but at the edge, where the individual receiver has a right to their own opinion about what constitutes... spam, porn, et al and needs only to be provided with better "capabilities of their individual message systems." Hamish. -- He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche