> Filter is ok. The receiver can go and look, if they know to and >want to look. It is not my cup of tea. I want everything in and I'll >sort/filter/delete it. > Blocking is not ok unless I request it. Better if I can set it up >and manipulated it. ISP's should offer it, not impose it.
I agree... but as a mail admin, I can tell you that the reason I started blocking at the server level was simply a traffic issue. The spam was sucking up all my bandwidth. By blocking at the server, it rejects the connections before it can get far enough to chew up significant bandwidth. Also, this greatly reduces server load trying to deliver all the crap no one wants anyway. And reduces storage space needed on the server to keep all that crap until the users pick it up and throw it out themselves. My guess is ISPs have a similar thought in mind. In an ideal world, it would be nice to let the client filter everything themselves. And if I used an ISP mail account, I would certainly rather that I be the one to filter the mail and not them. But I can sympathize with them now, which is a polar opposite opinion from what I had just a year or so ago. I used to be strongly against ISP filtering of email. Strongly enough that I would have left an ISP that did it to me, and in fact, I never used my ISP addresses just so I could make sure filtering wasn't done for me. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
