Danny:

> -Just get your ISP to install procmail.

Good thing to do.

> - Block out free email accounts like hotmail, yahoomail, start.com.au, email.com

That is very draconian. I'm putting up a business plan to investors to
start an ISP. Imagine trying to convince investors that stopping our
customers from receiving e-mail from their mother (who has no Internet
account of her own but goes to the local library)! That is *not* a
viable option in my opinion. If you think that this is far fetched it's
how my mother and I communicate via e-mail. It saves us both a lot of
long distance calls and she goes to the library all the time anyway.

I also work with a number of e-commerce sites. Putting it bluntly, we
wouldn't be happy if we couldn't receive e-mail from people with these
type of accounts just because 0.000[insert more 0's]1 of their users
abused the service.

> - People always use those email accounts to spam you.

Rubbish. I have a number of yahoo and hotmail accounts and I don't spam
anyone. Logically that argument is dead. Rephrased to "sometimes people
use these accounts to spam you" makes more sense.

> - Avoid giving away your real email to user forum groups like deja,

OK. So what e-mail are you going to give? A false one, or a free one
from YAHOO or HOTMAIL?

> - There is a book from O'Rielly which explains how you can combat this problem.

Yep. Lots of books actually and lots of FAQs etc that explain how to do
it without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

DL
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