Dave S wrote:

Mike Gaskins wrote:

One of my main job responsibilities is admining our email system at
work, and I can tell you truthfully that auto-challenge systems (which
you seem to imply you're using) are not a good thing to put into place.


I have used earthlink and its spam-blocker with good success for over
a year. The key: I set it to send me a summary DAILY of senders and
subjects blocked. If I see something I want to check out, I check it in
WEBMAIL and if its legit, then I click to add.

I would venture to say only 30% of legitimate, desireable senders use
the auto-challenge to send me an allowed senders request. BUT.. it keeps
30-50 emails a DAY off my machine (the virus laden, spam laden ones)

So.. Richard, while the setup you are using is not a good idea for
someplace that does high volume business email, for people like you and
me, its not a bad deal at all. Just check the webmail for blocked
messages, and once you add someone its not blocked again.

Dave


Done done it, Dave.

Got the address book uploaded easily.

Even used the notice link to add one early bird
..
I noticed that reading web mail did not remove the mail from the
server, so it was still available for pop3 download.
That's nice.

Maybe there is life after the internet?


Richard