MailGuard, which can be downloaded from www.fundi.com, interposes itself between your existing email package and the Internet. When a piece of mail comes in, it checks to see whether it recognizes the address of the sender. If not, it issues a carefully drafted challenge, asking the sender politely to confirm that he is not a bulk sender of commercial mail by replying with a specified phrase in the subject field of the email.
A freeware Java-based, open architected client-side proxy (ByProxy), which includes agents for SPAM filtration, auto pgp encrypt/decrypt among others is posted to www.besiex.com. It already has noCem and auto/manually builds a friends and enemies list (similar to MailGuard). --Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- reply to schear - at - lvdi - dot - net --- PGP mail preferred, see http://www.pgp.com and http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html RSA fingerprint: FE90 1A95 9DEA 8D61 812E CCA9 A44A FBA9 RSA key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x55C78B0D ---------------------------------------------------------------------