Re: And so it begins...

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of oblique comments:

1. My ISP recently switched from its home-grown "QuikCop" 
server-side spam filter (whitelist/blacklist based, and 
user-configurable, but any time the configuration was lost 
for a user, it defaulted to impounding everything and 
replying with an "enrollment-request" message) to 
CommuniGate Pro. It's got a very rich, and very 
user-configurable spam filter; I've managed to configure 
my account so that there hasn't been a false positive in 
weeks, and so that the more common "phishing" expeditions 
get immediately forwarded to the authorities, and now at 
least 90% of my spam gets stopped at the server. Oh, and 
as soon as my ISP switched to CommuniGate, the progress 
bar in Netscape 4.7's mail reader (on my Mac at home) 
started working again for the first time in a couple of 
years (I thought some resource in Netscape had gotten 
stomped).

2. There's a very simple way for a legitimate user to send 
email out of his home server from anywhere in the world. 
It's called a web-mail interface, and most mail servers 
these days have them. In fact, my ISP now has 2 separate 
web-mail interfaces; I'm sending this out of the one 
that's built into CommuniGate.


Please note that I am in no way connected with the makers 
of CommuniGate. iMail (which is what we use here at 
Touchtone) also has a rather nice web-mail interface built 
into their server.

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JHHL