Hi all,

I'll add my experience to the discussion. I use Earthlink and I do not 
know what other ISP email services provide. Since starting to  use 
Earthlink's email blocker about a year ago, I have not received ANY 
unwanted emails. Their blocker works on the basis of only allowing 
emails to download to my computer if the sender is on my approved 
senders list (address list) which can include up to 2,000 
persons/entities. I started out not allowing any emails (cleared my 
address list on Earthlink's site) and, as each email after that was 
blocked by Earthlink, I would unblock those I wanted and add the senders 
to my approved list. Of course for the first few weeks I added many to 
the list, but now it is only one or two a week. In addition I can 
unblock messages on a single use basis by accepting the message without 
adding the person/entity to the approved list. Those senders that I 
particularly do not want to hear from I added to a reject (without 
notification) list which, unfortunately, is limited to only 500 
persons/entities which quickly filled up. I now simply report those type 
of emails as spam. Earthlink learns from that and places emails on a 
separate spam list from which I can accept those that really are not 
spam. The learning process is ongoing and by now there are rarely emails 
that end up on the spam list that are truly not spam.

You can check with your individual ISP email services provider to see 
what they have to offer.

I hope my experience helps.

Tom

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