Tim: >>> If .com was *only* ever used for commerical use, and using .com was >>> enforced for commercial use, and we had something else for personal >>> use, we could blanket delete all .com originating mail, and still >>> receive all our non .com mail from our personal friends. ;-) Bruno Wolff III: > This really wouldn't work well. You can do the equivalent using a > white list in any case. You might have noticed my little disclaimer, originally. ;-) Blacklisting (which is what my suggestion was) has its problems. Though a clear use of com for commercial, would have made it very easy to avoid all commercial mail, if you wanted to, and if it was possible to force commercial users to use it. The last "if" really being the nail in the coffin for it. Whitelisting has even worse problems. It's very much a chicken and egg situation when you want to get a message from someone for the first time. A lot of people don't actually know their e-mail addresses, and can't tell you it, ahead of time (or do so incorrectly). Various things that you sign up for will send you a confirmation message, but don't tell you what address they'll be sending from, and so on. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
