Allowing certain e-mail addresses

[Trev]

That being said, I can only caution you against actually using such public services.  Without pointing a finger at any particular service, time and time again, each of these public and high-profile services has been proven to be hackable and unsafe for personal communication.

As if any Internet-based email system sans encryption (and sometimes with) is safe. ;-) None of them are reliable.

[Trev]

Just to put things in perspective, in the last 24 hours since installing the new spam filter, the system has blocked 364 accounts from being registered, all of which show up on the spammer list.

Those it let through were easily caught by me.

Since taking gmail / yahoo off the list about 2 hours ago, there have been no fewer than 29 attempts to use hacked gmail / yahoo accounts for bogus registrations.

Wayne

Yup, and that's why when I have kids, I'm going to lock them in their rooms without Internet access until they're adults. A world that allows anonymous email access just isn't safe! Maybe I'll skip kids altogether. ;-)

Trev [who daily discards a stack of junk snail mail, not all of which is legitimate--imagine that]