Thus spake Bob Allisat

There is absolutely no reason for ISPs to do *anything*. Except for implementing a USER CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE that allows personal filtering of E-Mail *before* it is downloaded. I called this the ALLISAT INDEX once upon a time but what is a name?

Well...Bob, while I think you're a raving lunatic...guess what? You can do this with the RBL as it stands! At least our MTA allowed us to set it up this way...It's not something that can be decided on the fly when a specific piece of email is retrieved (say through Eudora), but its a setting that our users set on whether to use RBL or not. Isn't that a radical idea...that ISP's can implement things how they want because its their equipment. Now, please...take your raving lunacies. We can't help it if you can't figure out how to configure your MTA like you wish. (My apologies if this is more noise than signal...I can't believe I'm actually responding to Bob...sheesh...hopefully its at least *somewhat* operationally related since it involves MTA config) For what its worth...our MTA (exim in our shop) allows us to set an RBL warning on messages globally, but not block them on a system-wide level. This then let's our users configure procmail, filter, or even an exim filter to dump any messages which have the RBL warning on them. Incidentally, we have a system level service the users can "sign up" for (its set up in our billing system as a seperate account type, but its free) that will accomplish this basically at the system level...but again, its user specific. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456