Point taken. OK, revised suggestion is this: Cut port 25 entirely, when people call to complain, press a button to play this recorded message. "Dear customer, in order to combat the Child pornography, Terrorist communications and Spam being sent by infected computers - WHICH YOU MAY HAVE! - we have blocked all popular email programs form communicating to the Intarweb thingy. In future, please feel free to use http://webmail.isp.co.nz for your email requirements. If on the other hand you support Child Pornography, are a member of an active Terrorist Cell, or wish to get a b1gger p3nis now!, then please press (1) and we'll unblock your evil Email connection." Cheers - Neil G ps. Sorry - I'll get back ontopic by about Tuesday week. :-)

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Juha Saarinen 10/06/2004 2:58:56 p.m. >>> neil gardner wrote:

To be fair though, in mentioning an opt-out system I was thinking of clueful users deliberately running their own servers that would notice within minutes that port 25 had been blocked -

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