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> Someone else (it might even have been the same person) in this
> debate said he'd be quite happy for important email to be bounced
> as long as it stopped him getting SPAM,

That was me.

> So, of course he wouldn't complain if that job offer of a network
> manager at a nice big salary in the City of London never arrived.

That is no more likely to happen than my modem spitting out a cascade
of krugerrands.

Given the purposes we use email for, losing messages is NOWHERE NEAR as
bad a problem as spam.  And we are getting *more* lost email from the
crude filtering we have to use than we would under the more sophisticated
approaches I've described here.

I just asked Claranet whether they did server-side filtering and got
a totally clueless standard answer that didn't address the issue at
all.  I know U-Net do, but they have a pretty primitive setup.  What
alternatives are there?  I'd rather not involve a third-party server
just to run procmail, as that would drastically reduce reliability.

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