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Interesting. You gotta wonder what things are happening but not making it into the news.

WRT anti spam tools... There are many good ones that I know by reputation, spamkiller and mailwasher are perhaps the top ones. I haven't used them myself though. We use Postini, but that's a mail filtering service that only signs up whole companies and doesn't offer single user accounts.

You might want to go back and consider the free earthlink service. I'm supposing that they are your ISP and your mail address is an earthlink address? The huge advantage of using them would be that the mail would get filtered way out on their network on their servers, and the crud wouldn't ever even get so far as your local mailbox or your outlook inbox. That's a big advantage. I would suppose that it also includes virus scanning at that location too. That's also a big advantage.

If you go for your own software, then everything still hits your mailbox and you still have to download all of it, and the filtering doesn't happen until it reaches your computer.

Yeah, earthlink is my ISP, they didn't used to be, but bought out the one I was using. earthlink is fine, but sometimes I think they have a little of a bad attitude.

Anyway, what you say makes sense, so I'll probably give them a try.