well, what it does is looks at your incoming email and looks for common elements that are usually found in spam. If the message scores higher that a set threshold it is marked as spam by rewriting the subject line to include ****SPAM*** and you can then set a email filter to move or delete it. You could make it automatically delete it but we chose not to do that because sometimes (although not too often) legitimate email gets flaged as spam. For example, it flages the antionline mailer message as spam. In those cases it supports sometihing called a white list. You can tell it to accept certain email addresses even though it scores as spam. AND the opposite is also true you can set email addressed to alsways be marked as spam even if they do not score as spam by adding them to a black list.

So far this has been the best solution to our spam problems. We used to use real time black hole lists but we have found them too unreliable and completely out of our control. This has been a much better solution for us.

Dave