From: Tony Williams 

Geo. wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3dfb7864{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>
>>Aha, so you read nanae too, right? Wasn't that the response of someone
>>who got a cartooney from a blocked spammer? That would be a court case
>>worth watching.
>
>
> Actually no, I very seldom read nanae and that was something I came up with
> on my own to make people understand that just because some idiot is
> connected to the internet does not mean that anyone else has to communicate
> with him.

You picked a good example then.

> someone calls me on the phone, it's my decision if I want to talk or if I
> hang up on them. RBL's are just a way to hang up.

Exactly. My preference would be for a two-level system, with automatic
tagging of emails which look like spam (we use this at work and it's
surprisingly accurate), followed by blocking if the spam doesn't stop.

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Tony

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