>I certainly suffer spam headaches for reasons that are beyond my control, >but it never occurred to me to try to block mail from the ISP where it >originated. With our sensitive server, it appears that we could soon >reduce each other to a read-only status, except that there wouldn't be >much to read.
Usually blocking an entire domain is an extremist move. However, there are times when it is warranted. I have no idea how much spam Brian was getting from cox, but if he had no legit email coming from them, and a large supply of spam, then blocking the whole domain may have been the most reasonable move. It also could have been a decision based on however his spam controls work. If he used the AOL controls, he may have had little choice (I'm not very familiar with the options AOL gives, but my brother has complained that they are just shy of useless as they either don't let you filter enough, or force you to over filter and run a high number of false positives). And if you think filtering an entire domain is big... I know people that filter entire countries, or entire netblocks. Its actually fairly normal to filter everything from china or korea because of the amazingly high level of spam coming from those countries. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
