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Originally Posted by Sociable
Precisely my point stuartbe 
I'm not talking about NTL applying one of the domestic anti-spam programs but instituting a process that identifies the source of spam and applies a block.
Examples would be attempts to send the same mail to a dictionary list clearly designed to test for valid addresses and other such methods used by the spammers.
I'm no tech but simple logic tells me it must be possible to identify and eliminate some of the more obvious abuses of the system and start with those.
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I see what you are saying m8
The problem remains that there is no 100% efective method of detecting spam. Until we can do this we cant start to block. The risk of killing personal mail is too high.
Microsoft have a duty here to !! they should make sure that the mail clients are able to deal with junk mail. Reverse dns checking is just one method that is very efective.
If we are to rid the internet of spam (something I think we will never do as the internet is based on totaly floored technology) then everyone has to work together. How many users know how to check the source ip (spoofed or not) of an email ? How many users foolishly click on the unsubscribe link ?
We could argue until the cows come home (or the wife) but there is no out of the box solution.