* In a message originally to Allen Prunty, mark lewis said:   
      
    ML> then sign up with a free service... there are several available... heck,   
    ML> for that matter, sign up with a bbs account ;)   
      
   I have an Icloud account... I was running SMTP/POP on my BBS but since   
   I dropped winserver I no longer have a SMTP/POP solution.  If I could   
   find something that would translate it to the BBS I would do it in a   
   new york minute.  I've yuet to find something to do that for me yet   
   with the exception of internet rex and I've not been able to get that   
   to work reliably.   
      
    ML> i have maybe 15 or 20 email addresses that i check every day...   
    ML> thunderbird hits them all at once when i tell it to check... many of my   
    ML> email addresses are on my own email server but i've also several gmail,   
    ML> yahoo, and hotmail addresses...   
      
   That's too many for me to keep track of... Much rather work on the   
   KISS (Keep it stupid simple) philosophy.  I use icloud because Apple   
   is very anti big-brother.  G-mail and the others if you read their TOS   
   they store the e-mail indefinately on their systems for marketing   
   research.  I don't trust them.... workign for the government e-mail   
   and trust is a big thing.  (Which is the one issue I have with   
   Hillary)   
      
    ML> sorry but spamcop doesn't eat anything... it is a reporting service   
    ML> only... your provider is filtering based on the results of queries to   
    ML> the spamcop database... i used spamcop for several years to take back my   
    ML> email acount from the spammers... i used to get over 300 spams a day   
      
   It's not the spamcop it's the "brightmail" that they use.  If a   
   mailing list does not conform to the new "spoof" proof mailing list   
   standards it won't work.  I can toatally see why it would reject   
   because most mailing list software now sends from the list name on   
   behalf of the user.  Previously (and yahoogroups used to work this   
   way) it would send directly in the user's name and e-mail address.   
      
   Now that the mailservers authenticate that the person really sent the   
   mail I can totally appreciate the rejection of it.  In fact many of   
   the "free" providers... especially Google, Yahoo, AOL or   
   Outlook.com/hotmail will reject if the mail is not authenticated   
   properly since they were the ones who developed this standard   
   collectively.   
      
   Allen   
      
      
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