Mike S wrote: [..] > "Whoever... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or > command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without > authorization, to a protected computer...shall be punished..." Your email is not authorized to enter and reside on a recipient's mail server until and unless the recipient's mail server says it is. Mail servers are entitled to refuse reception of your email using whatever decision process they choose. This includes the method of assigning a "this source is likely a spammer" semantic to responses received from lookups on certain externally maintained lists. cheers, gja -- Grenville Armitage http://caia.swin.edu.au I come from a LAN downunder.