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Denton, unless you learn how to read email headers, you'll have to rely on some sort of a software solution, ie some sort of spam blocking software.
If you learn to read the headers and what to watch for, it's pretty simpel to spot them, but does take a little time.
pnce you can read headers you can setup some of the filters in your blocking software to better suit yourself, or if you really want to get into it, there are ways to backtrack the email to a certain extant.
The thing that'll really tick you off is this..... When windows XP came out, they released it with full raw sockets ability.
basically a network testing ability that no normal user needs or will ever even hear of, but it gave windows PC's the same IP masking abilities that only unix/linux machines had prior to that.
Microsoft knew this would happen, people in those circles went on about it for months, but nicrosoft went ahead and released it anyway.
Sometimes i think they release buggy/exploit ridden software, just to keep themselves in business "fixing" what should have never existed in the first place.
the second thing that really get your goat, is about 1997 or 98 there was a big push for _ALL_ mail servers to have a small bit of code added (less than 20 min for any halfass coder to do) that would have made spam, as we see it today, impossible.
Yes soem would have still be around, but not the way it is.
BUT noone wanted to do it, because it "wasen't their problem".
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