Hello Greg, Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 9:38:03 PM, you wrote:
GA> But if you do manage multiple users accounts, you have to provide industry GA> standard anti-spam protection without blocking on your own definition of GA> "spam". Now if you are only talking your own email box, you can define every GA> email except emails from your mom as spam, not much of anyone would give a GA> hoot what you block in your own inbox. I disagree. Administering email for a multi-chain retail company, my job is to block all unsolicited non-customer emails that do not obey our company parameters, while admitting all customer emails without exception. So, if you want, our company has defined our own definition of spam, and we apply that definition to our 200 or so email accounts. Desired email: - all actual customer email - all realistic potential customer email - all honest customer-like email, even if not potential (ie: we have no stores in Michigan, but we treat a "customer" from there as courteously as we would an active customer of one of our stores) - all email from governmental agencies - all email from active vendors - all email from past vendors who are honorable and honest about regaining our business - all email from potential vendors who reach us through appropriate email addresses - all email from employees - all email from past employees - all email from prospective employees - all email from NGOs that reach us through appropriate email addresses - all email from anyone else for any reason, provided that email reaches us through appropriate email addresses Note that "appropriate" email addresses are posted on our web site, for that purpose. Anything else is spam. Supposed potential vendors who send queries to webmaster@ or sales@ is spam. Scams are spam. All emails with misdirecting email headers is spam. There are probably more categories of spam than there are non-spam. Bob Menschel
