The difficulty with ISP-based spam filtering is that you don't know and can't control the rules that are used. Anyone who runs a legitimate e-newsletter is likely to have run into "Where's my mail" from a subscriber whose ISP's rules screened out that particular issue. [For an expert editor's view of the issue, go to tidbits.com and search for "server-side filtering".]
Not always so. My ISP's spam filtering allows me to go in and set parameters for it's filters. That is the score each filter generates. When the cumulative score is above a certain amount (also user configurable) the mail is treated as spam. I can also white list and black list e-mail addresses and that includes the use of wildcards. Very handy for white listing all e-mail lists from [EMAIL PROTECTED] for example. When something is tagged as spam it is held for 7 days (I can control that too) and then tossed. I get a daily summary of spam which I scan for anything legit.
I'd rather try to cope with spam myself -- even over a dial-up line!
And yes, Spam is relatively yukky lunch meat on the west side of the puddle also. The term's use for unsolicited commercial email is said to spring from a Monty Python skit... you can probably Google it up if you are interested.
That and the general unsavory nature of Spam, either type. -- -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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