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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

Alright, this has been piquing my interest since this thread started.

Back in the day, around 2 years ago now, I got my Grandma's hand me 
down iMac, and promptly set up my free iTools account. Around came dot 
mac, and I paid my $50 for the first year. This year, I finagled it so 
I paid $5 to a friend for email-only, but still with the same email 
address. So I'm approaching my 3rd year of the same address, yet 
probably get only half a dozen spams per month.

For the first year I was an email nazi with regards to protecting my 
email. My old ISP didn't deactivate my account for months, so I used 
that for signing up for things online and the like as long as possible. 
When that happened, I was really careful, then finally just figured 
"What the hell, Mail.app has a spam filter, lets just see what happens 
when I go back to using my address for stuff online" I didn't go sign 
up for porn or anything I knew would get my spam, but I use it for lots 
of places, yet I still get very little spam.

So I guess it boils down to: (a) does Apple just run really good spam 
filters on the dot mac servers or (b) what else could be the reason for 
this?

I'm just curious, definitely not complaining,
Ian

ps: AFAIK, I have never had legitimate email rejected, however I have 
been blocked on occasion from sending email to some ISPs and some AOL 
accounts reject my address as well (and they are people that I know 
haven't done anything like block email from me)

On Mar 22, 2004, at 3:30 PM, Tarus Balog wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Steven Champeon wrote:
>
> I doubt we will ever agree on this, but as someone who gets several 
> hundred spam e-mails a day, I understand the pain. So I'll summarize 
> my points and let you have the last word: