Bill's right: anytime I send something out, it automatically
becomes part of the whitelist.  Of course, if the addressee decides
to respond to your message using a different address, the problem
is his, not yours.

The unpleasant fellow from eBay had sent me an automated response
to 'end of auction' before I had a chance to send him anything.
He also maintained (wrongly) that he was able to generate messages
that addressed my 'annoying and insulting' challenge automatically.
That's not possible.

The whole point is that through eliminating the automated element in
emails and reducing it to either domain acceptance or particular known
entities, the entire issue of spam disappears (with the occasion
glitch).  The harvesting of addresses is not possible with ChoiceMail.
So I'm left to suppose that he was lying on top of being deliberately
ungentlemanly.

Today's spam-o-meter shows 50 unknown messages on my address --
a total of 81% of my mail.  I don't even have to look at them unless
I'm paranoid about missing something and I've decided that if someone
wants badly enough to contact me, they'll figure it out.

Claudine Jones
San Francisco