Building A Better Inbox (Updated)

vudujava writes "c|net is reporting that a new free (Update: not free, actually, read more for details.), web based email service is opening it's doors today. They promise to deliver "100% spam free" email to their users by using a challenge-response system to all incoming, first-time mail. Catch the entire story here. Although the idea isn't new, it shows that we are notching up the "war on spam"." Alert reader George Hotelling points out this post on Politech which may give you pause when it comes to the new mail service's Terms of Service. And kraksmoka writes "As reported on this article on MSNBC : 'Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day "in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam," said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager.'" dlanod writes "In your snippet on the main page you report mailblocks.com as "a new free, web based email service". Looking at Mailblocks' site, it actually costs $9.95/year for the standard service, or $24.95/year for the expanded service with no free option listed (https://app1.mailblocks.com/register.htm)."

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Re:Now this is what I prefer to see...

[Neil Watson]

Alas, I'm sure this must by laziness (the bad kind), being cheap and ignorance.

1. Some sysadmins (I use that term loosely) are simply to lazy to patch up their systems. Some distributers ship their software so that relaying is allowed out of the box.
2. Companies are to cheap to hire a competent person to watch over their networks.
3. Some people simply don't know what and open relay is. This is usually due to points 1 and 2.