5 weeks! Damn, and your complaining? Typical in Canada is 4% (2 weeks). Personally I have 3 and I dont complain.

Except for entire Colleges and many Universities. Other than that, and a million and a half other places, you're correct.

Its unfortunate that your experience has been so sour, to my knowledge it is EXTREMELY rare that our setup blocks legitimate emails. Sounds like poor implementation/administration. It's only going to perform as well as it is configured. There's quite the balancing act between "block everything" and "let everything though" Like I said, we still receive some spam. If we tightened our filters more we would probably start blocking more legit traffic as well. It will never be perfect.... but a couple million less spam emails is a good thing IMHO. -J

Get yourself a barracuda or two. I know our College's barracudas blocked 12 million emails last year and only let 2.5 million (ideally, legit ones) through. And we STILL get spam in our inboxefrom time-to-time. Awfully hard to catch when they embed their garbage in images as opposed to text.

Dont be a smartass, I thought it seemed like a really dumb idea too when I read what you first wrote. I thought you may be doing it as a proof of concept.

My mistake. I understand what you mean now. :)

Thats because you're doing it over WiFi...not on your providers data network (3g or EDGE). They have no way of telling if you're tethering over wifi.