Joe,

JH> Whitelist-based solutions are the only way to go.
JH> "Everything is unwanted email - unless I say it isn't by
JH> whitelisting it." It costs you a little in time, up-front,
JH> but well worth the investment over time.

Unless of course you rely on advertising (in any form) your email
address to bring in business.

Seldom are absolute black and white approaches the real 'best
solution' to a problem. What might work for a simple end user who
just wants to get emails from their family will not work for
someone that uses email as a critical, but fast becoming less
useful because of spam, business tool.

Making every prospective customer jump through hoops just to do
business with you, or leaving their email sitting in limbo just
because it hasn't been whitelisted is NOT the right answer
either.

And NO, I don't have the perfect solution either - there isn't
one unfortunately <sigh>.

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Regards,

Tim Jones

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In Australia: http://www.aquatee.com