I have been running my own mail server for about 6 years or so and it took almost 5 years for me to start getting spam on most of my accounts.  The thing about spam is that it really never decreases, you continue to get more and more and more and they never take you off the list, no matter what you do.  I have tried a few tricks to attempt to get removed from a few lists but really nothing works.  For the last 6 months i almost feared my inbox and would notice that i checked it less and less each week, this is really not a viable option because i was getting ~100 spams a day.  I know that for most people that’s not really a huge number but i have had almost zero filtering on my inbox for over 5 years and all was great.  So after talking to one of my buddies, who also run a mail server as well, he told me about the concept of greylisting and how it works... i will not drive into the details of how it works but here is the info. 

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Well i'm just getting into blogging and i thought that i would take a quick eval of all the different .Net blog packages.  I'm not sure why but for some reason i have ended up on BlogEngine.Net.  I have installed and looked that the following packages; Community Server, DasBlog, Subtext and BlogEngine.   To tell the truth i think that i like Community Server the best out of all of them, but i'm not sure that i want to install the 9000 features that come with it.  I do like the design and size of the BlogEngine but it leaves a few features that can NOT be stored in the db and that is a big negative, but will prob be fixed in up coming versions.   

With all of this said i'm going to be giving BlogEngine a try and perhaps i will write some code to get all features in the db myself.  we shall see if i stick with it or move over to one of the other blog packages.