I have received a reply to my request for further information from Jerry Grasso ([log in to unmask]), Director, Corporate Communications, Earthlink. I'm not sure I understand it: > Users can set their precedence settings to bulk, list or junk. > For legitimate bulk emailers the auto-responses will always come > from a small set of servers and these servers will not carry any > non-auto-response mail, so they can feel free to block them by IP. > > If there are large sets of bulk mail in which these rules do not > catch, we will quickly change them. If a third party provider has > a complaint after the product launches, they should contact > [log in to unmask] and the problem will be resolved as soon as > technically possible. Comments, anyone? -- Michael Quinion