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Using webmail would defeat that, though, right?


Not if the webmail implementation passes-on your IP, which it should if you believe Spam is a bigger issue than email sender privacy.

Basically, if a webmail service doesn't pass along your IP, there would be no way for recipient networks to ever block a flood of unwanted email because they could never blacklist, say, yahoo.com.

I read something about this lately... maybe from Paul Buchheit?


Depends on the webmail. Some do, some don't. Easy enough to test for yourself beforehand though.




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