[goldstategop]

I've news for Bill Gates. Phil Goldman's http://www.mailblocks.com already utlilizes active "human response" technology. And its already cut back on the spam that flowed into my MSN mailbox - an account by the way, that's I've never used!

[AzJohn]

And its already cut back on the spam that flowed into my MSN mailbox - an account by the way, that's I've never used!

Even without using any special software, the amount of spam I've gotten on MSN/Hotmail accounts has gone way down in the last couple months. Less spam overall and the stuff that does get through is more likely to go into the junk mail folder rather than my inbox. They've changed their setup somehow to cut back on this stuff.

[secret garden]

Yes but how much is it? It reminds me of the irritation factor of paying extra every month to keep my phone number unlisted.

[SamAdams76]

Yeah, but I'm waiting for the Microsoft package to come out. I try to keep my computers with 100% Microsoft software so that my computers run pretty much flawlessly. They are the only software company I fully trust.

[Gorzaloon]

I've news for Bill Gates. Phil Goldman's http://www.mailblocks.com already utlilizes active "human response" technology. And its already cut back on the spam that flowed into my MSN mailbox - an account by the way, that's I've never used!

Challenge-response whitelisting schemes have been around for a couple of years. They need work, because of subscribed mailing lists where no "human" is doing the sending. But it's a step in the right direction.

Not as good a step as impaling spammers by the roadside.

My domains allow me to create a large number of addreses, all of which I then forward to my main account. For example, "EBAY@domain.com", etc. In this way I can at least find out who is harvesting or selling addresses, or otherwise releasing them by default, and then blackholing everything from them till the end of time and giving them no further business. That address is then killed. I went from hundreds of spams a week to one or two.

But my contention is, "Why should I even have to do this at all?"