EPA applies YOUR precise preferences (your "wants")
to manage and deliver or dispose of ALL your e-mail!

• The others --> If an e-mail's content does not exactly match an "unwanted" text pattern, the e-mail is "wanted".
  EPA -------------> If an e-mail's content does not exactly match a "wanted" text pattern, the e-mail is "unwanted".

• The others --> Apply "guessing" logic that falsely classifies some "wanted" e-mail as "unwanted" and some "unwanted" e-mail as "wanted".
  EPA -------------> Precisely applies your specified "wants" to classify your mail with ONLY TRUE and NO FALSE results.

• The others --> Process only incoming Internet personal mail.
  EPA -------------> Processes incoming AND outgoing, Internet AND intranet, personal AND organizational mail.

• The others --> Limit your e-mail access by arbitrarily blocking some e-mails addressed to you from your inspection based on THEIR criteria.
  EPA -------------> All e-mail addressed to you is processed according solely to YOUR "wants".

• The others --> Provide you with limited onward processing options for both "wanted" and "unwanted" mail.
  EPA -------------> Permits you to apply general or complex processing actions specific to the e-mail's subject matter, addressee and sender.

How do EPA's differences make it the most effective, useful process for YOU?

• You're famous and giving a very large private party. You've hired guards to prevent 'partycrashing'. Do you give the guards:
  1. A list of names of those you don't want to attend (a "black list") and tell them 'Admit everyone not named on the list' ?
     
  2. A list of names of those you do want to attend (a "white list") and tell them 'Admit only those named on the list' ?
     
  Obviously, only method 2. can assure that you get what you want - no 'partycrashers'
  
  
• "One person's trash is another's treasure". Only you can say what you want and when you want it. Can someone you've never communicated with know what you want or don't want? Would you allow someone you don't know to censor and block your personal mail under any circumstances?

• You deal with all mail when and as you want. Basic EPA actions to deal with "unwanted" mail include 1.) Tell the sender "no one here by that name"; 2.) Put the e-mail in the trash without further processing; 3.) Forward the mail to the mailbox of an external agency you want to deal with it; 4.) Forward it another box of yours or file it where you can browse and dispose of it at your leisure. Based on the sender of a "wanted" mail, reception processing might include translation and distribution functions.

• At home and everywhere else, you get identical e-mail filtering effectiveness and e-mail control using identical software.