Rant : The Virgin net anti-spam filter

I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail - proper, no
nonsense loans and penis extensions and online degrees type stuff.

And I havn't given _anyone_ my email address.

That's shit service that is. Don't suppose I'll bother giving anyone
my that address either...

> I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
> connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
> to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail

Congrats, I get ~250 per *day* (down from ~580 per day)

Get mailwasher and set some filters up. I`ve got some half decent ones to
start you off here, along with some of the old free mailwasher betas :

http://www.coreutilities.co.uk

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Zardoz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
> connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
> to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail - proper, no
> nonsense loans and penis extensions and online degrees type stuff.
>
> And I havn't given _anyone_ my email address.
>
> That's shit service that is. Don't suppose I'll bother giving anyone
> my that address either...

What is the address?
I get lots of email to random (E-Mail Removed)

"Zardoz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
> connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
> to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail - proper, no
> nonsense loans and penis extensions and online degrees type stuff.
>
> And I havn't given _anyone_ my email address.
>
> That's shit service that is. Don't suppose I'll bother giving anyone
> my that address either...

You don't need to give anyone your address to get spam. Spammers use
software that generates thousands of names in front of the domain part of
the address and email them all.

Ian Stirling <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Zardoz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
> > connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
> > to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail - proper, no
> > nonsense loans and penis extensions and online degrees type stuff.
> >
> > And I havn't given _anyone_ my email address.
> >
> > That's shit service that is. Don't suppose I'll bother giving anyone
> > my that address either...
>
> What is the address?
> I get lots of email to random (E-Mail Removed)

That happens to my domain too. I think it's a common ploy with spambots.
IMO, it is worth getting a good mail service to filter at source. I
simply never get junk mail in my inbox any more. As I forward all my
legit email to an orange account that sends me a text message, that's an
important issue for me! Even in my junk mail folder, only about 1
message a day is left there, as any obvious spam is automatically
deleted without my even knowing it arrived.

--
David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:36:24 +0000, Zardoz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail

about an hour's worth.

Do Virgin claim to have anti-spam filters ?

Phil
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:36:24 +0000, [Zardoz] said :-

>I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
>connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
>to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail - proper, no
>nonsense loans and penis extensions and online degrees type stuff.
>
>And I havn't given _anyone_ my email address.

That's irrelevant, spammers already have your address - but there
would have been poor unfortunate 'people' that have had the bounce
message to the previously non-existent mailbox.

Alternatively, someone pre-owned that mailbox and cancelled it, and by
chance, you have set it up again.

>
>That's shit service that is.

Explain that sentence.

>Don't suppose I'll bother giving anyone
>my that address either...
>

Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
>> connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
>> to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail
>
> Congrats, I get ~250 per *day* (down from ~580 per day)

One day I got a quarter of a million.
(10% of demons incoming email)

> > Congrats, I get ~250 per *day* (down from ~580 per day)
> One day I got a quarter of a million.
> (10% of demons incoming email)

Nice !

I was once joe-jobbed and got a new one every 6-12 seconds for about 2
weeks, but that probably out-does mine :-}

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"Ian Stirling" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >> I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
> >> connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
> >> to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail
> >
> > Congrats, I get ~250 per *day* (down from ~580 per day)
>
> One day I got a quarter of a million.
> (10% of demons incoming email)

How long did that take to download ;-)

Dave