Aaaah! I think that I am beginning to understand.

Over here, I have two accounts; one of which is business, and I block stuff that is of no interest to me, particularly from countries where I will not do business. My private address, on the other hand, has no retrictions.

My logic is that I have to put my business e-mail out there, but my private one is only given to those that I choose.

Spam bots will find my business address, but not my private one

I suspect that we are being faced with knee jerk "on the fly" solutions here?

The "private" and "residential" thing doesn't work here............ most SOHO and small businesses as well as private homes use the same services.

Anyway, if a large corporate has an unprotected server, that is the biggest spambot out?

I think that there is a different approach in our two countries?