Putting it bluntly, email "spam" (AKA "UCE" Unsolicited Commercial Email) will not be tolerated incoming or outgoing at Vintners.net.

• Any Vintners.Net customer caught originating spam will immediately lose all privileges at Vintners.net, and their account will be revoked. Any prepaid balance in the customer's account will be forfeit in order to help recoup our costs at cleaning up the mess.

• Vintners.Net runs a configuration that will disallow email relaying. If you receive spam that you believe came through Vintners.net, we very much want to know about it as it indicates a failure in our configuration. Please forward the complete email, including complete headers to our abuse department. (Without complete headers we can do nothing -- please ask if in doubt.)

• Vintners.net maintains an active stance at barring incoming spam by maintaining a Local Blocklist.

• If you receive a "550 error" from the Vintners.net Local Blocklist, we will be more than happy to work with you on clearing the problem (click Blocklist link for details).

• Vintners.Net is extremely proactive in preventing spam from reaching it's customers. Beyond our own Local Blocklist (see above), we are also subscribed to the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS).

• Vintners.net customers are welcome to elect creeps to the Local Blocklist when receiving repeated spam emails. Please visit our Local Blocklist page for details.

• Please visit our Mail handling Statistics page for the current mail rejection statistics -- you will almost certainly be astonished (and probably disgusted)!