[ml/nj]

I still say: Make any debt arising out of acceptance of a spam solicitation uncollectable in the United States, and commercial spam will dry up in a couple of months.

No one listens to me though.

ML/NJ

[Rifleman]

That would help. Fairly simple Baysian (just means that the prog does a word count and when you tell it what is spam and what is not, assigns a score) filters eliminate .999 of spam and have false positives of < .005 with very little training. They also get better with time, and match _your_ email usage patterns.

This challenge and response stuff has potential to be a PITA. Once it is trained, which in a properly designed email client consists of clicking a checkbox on emails that you recognize as spam, the baysian filters require no user intervention. The email client should have these built in and on by default.

Gates will use this to create more lockin on his victim<<<<<<customers. The implimentation will probably require a microsoft email client to do the reply.