Jim Fleming wrote: > http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame57.html Is the person in that picture you, Jim? (In case this is unclear, this is a rhetorical question, no reply solicited.) Back to the topic: Perry has hit the nail on the head. As another person with a moderately well-published mail address, I can attest that the problem simply can no longer be ignored. In Europe, spam (more precisely: automated unsolicited communications) will be outlawed EU-wide on 2003-07-24 (IANAL). That does not help with the large amount of Chinese, Korean, and US spam, though (and Europe so far has not been a significant source of spam, anyway). Maybe it *is* time to develop technical solutions that will assist the legal ones being deployed. It is certainly useful to think beyond mail, here -- automated unsolicited communications on your IP-phone will be even more of a problem than with mail. Gruesse, Carsten