Despite the overall annoyance factor, I also agree with this policy. At work
I am responsible for dealing with protecting
my end users from spam. (Along with others, it's a big job.) We probably
spend the equivalent of 1 full time employee over
a year between the 3 of us that deal with it the most. You think the company
is going to take that hit? Nope, the customers
will, in higher prices. We drop about 300,000 spam emails every week at the
gateway, and still spend this much time on it.
This helps, and it's only a minor inconvenience.

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> Actually a lot of service providers are doing this and in fact,
> Earthlink has been doing this for quite some time now.
>
> If it reduces spam, it's a good thing.
>
> If you get a business account, you can run your own smtp server but not
> on the residential service.
>
> You can always vote with your wallet.
>
> I thought that their explanation was more than adequate.
>
> Craig
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