<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 2, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Carole Wessel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "> One of my former clients had something really good, where on the first e-mail I sent, I had to add manually a code that was given to me. Once he Ok my email address, it was validated. </span></blockquote><br></div><div>You are describing a challenge/response type of anti-spam setup.</div><div><br></div><div>Challenge-response antii-spam companies:<br><br>SpamArrest<br><a href="http://en.www.spamarrest.com/tryit/index.jsp?1189880780817">http://en.www.spamarrest.com/tryit/index.jsp?1189880780817</a><br><br>iPermit Mail<br><a href="http://www.ipermitmail.com/">http://www.ipermitmail.com/</a></div><div><br>I highly recommend instead:</div><br>SpamSieve $30<br><a href="http://c-command.com/spamsieve/">http://c-command.com/spamsieve/</a><br><br>It takes a short while to train, and training it isn't at all hard, but after that it takes care of all of your spam like magic. SpamSieve actually makes intelligent decisions in picking out spam from legitimate e-mails. I get about 300 spam messages a day, and SpamSieve is currently over 99% effective on my Mac.<div><br></div><div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>___________________________________________</div><div>Randy B. Singer</div><div>Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance</div><div><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html">http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html</a></div><div>___________________________________________</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span>
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