[dfrussell]

Yeah. It gets rid of spam, but I'm sure also gets rid of non-spam a-mails as well. Besides, I don't think that consumers and businesses should be responsible for getting into an "arms race" with spammers, where the new technology comes along, and they figure out a way to beat it, and then the consumer hs to contiunally upgrade.

The only way you'll get what you want is to hire a secretary to pre-read your email... and even the warm body will make mistakes.

Also, end-users don't install spamassassin etc, it's done on the inbound email relays through which everyone's email is received... and running mail relays is a non-trivial job.

[Maceman]

The only way you'll get what you want is to hire a secretary to pre-read your email... and even the warm body will make mistakes.

Why should I have to go through that expense and loss of privacy>

Boy, I have to say I am disappointed with my fellow freepers.

So many reasons why suggestions won't work, and why nothing can be done. But not to many positive suggestions.

The whole idea of brainstorming is that one suspens the critical function untill the process is over. The idea is to get as many ideas as possible on the table.

Then once they're all out there where everyone can look at them, that is the time to beging analyzing them critically.