<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#188000" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Dave -</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">You might want to look into Junk Matcher available for free at Source Forge. It's an add on to mail.app in the rules area. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">I've been very pleased at how well it removes/segregates junk and spam. I have no experience with .mac and I don't know enough to comment on why you've been unable to filter stuff from your cable connection, but this might help as it looks at all your incoming mail and applies some pretty sophisiticated rules.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Here's the URL: </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">junkmatcher</SPAN></FONT></FONT></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">.sourceforge.net/Home/</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Hope it works,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">John</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>