Thanks to TWL members who responded. I investigated several suggestions, and just signed up with "spamcop.net" -- a service that will let me specifically "enable" or "disable" as many senders as I like, and will screen the rest. The screening seems pretty good, and it has features to insure that either I or a sender can cause incorrectly screened mail to go through. Bonus: I can tell it to delete attachments automatically, so the cute 750k cartoon that a well-intentioned friend might send me will not clog up my connection. Minor drawback: If a message from newfriend@aol.com gets blocked, AND the new friend ignores the email message they get (politely asking, in effect, are you a human being and not some mass mailing program), AND for 7 days after the message is sent, I can't or don't bother to glance at the list of mail being held out, then I will miss that message. Hassle to me and/or sender: usually none. Process: A message from a new sender (to me) that comes from an ISP not already known as a source of lots of spam will show up in my inbox automatically. A message from someone in my contact list will also come through, regardless of which ISP they are using. A message from a new contact, who is using an ISP that has been a source of much spam in the past will be held in a filtered mailbox on the server. Then (if I enable this option) the sender will get a message saying politely that I have the filter turned on, and please either click on a link or send an email to a coded address and their held message will be sent immediately. Whenever I like, I look at a list of the web of any mail being held, and can click to view and click to allow any of this mail being held. So if the sender doesn't respond to the email they get, I can still get the message. If either the sender or I enable delivery of the message, then that sender is added to my contacts, and will never have to go through this process again. If neither of us enables the message, it is deleted after one week. Cost: Based on usage, but they estimate $12.50 per year. Look at www.spamcop.net and click on the HELP link. You have to do a bit of digging to get a really good feel for this thing, but my experience after 24 hours is positive -- 100% of the spam was blocked (about a dozen messages), and all of the "real" mail came through correctly. Usual disclaimers... Hope to see many of you at Trawlerfest 9/26-29! Bill Sholar DORY, GB36 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com