Interesting Tedob1,

Sort of like "tax the innocent, because the guilty are beyond our reach"

Still, it might get some fat a$$ed sysadmins fix their open relays?

Thinking very rapidly of an alternative........................how about licencing bulk comercial e-mailers.............nominal amount to cover the administration................revoke their licence if it is abused so they pay the charge?

That would punish the open relays and leave the legit people more or less alone?

I am not good at thinking quickly, so I don't know what to do about mass mailing worms and viruses that got into the mail server ................I have software that protects desktop machines but not the server..............I need to think about that some more.

Good heads up!

Cheers