Mike Gaskins wrote:
One of my main job responsibilities is admining our email system at
work, and I can tell you truthfully that auto-challenge systems (which
you seem to imply you're using) are not a good thing to put into place.

I have used earthlink and its spam-blocker with good success for
over a year. The key: I set it to send me a summary DAILY of senders and
subjects blocked. If I see something I want to check out, I check it in
WEBMAIL and if its legit, then I click to add.

I would venture to say only 30% of legitimate, desireable senders use
the auto-challenge to send me an allowed senders request. BUT.. it keeps
30-50 emails a DAY off my machine (the virus laden, spam laden ones)

So.. Richard, while the setup you are using is not a good idea for
someplace that does high volume business email, for people like you and
me, its not a bad deal at all. Just check the webmail for blocked
messages, and once you add someone its not blocked again.

Dave