Spam

I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
period .
In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post boxes, and I
assume my wife will have received a similar number in hers.

I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from the spam
point of view I would simply be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!

Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of spam?

Retired

On 01 Jan 2008, Retired wrote

> I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the
> holiday period .
> In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post
> boxes, and I assume my wife will have received a similar number
> in hers.
>
> I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from
> the spam point of view I would simply be jumping out of the
> frying pan into the fire!
>
> Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of
> spam?

Not sure about ADSL providers, but the NTL (now Virgin) spam filters
seem to work very well -- at least, I get very little spam in my
inbox. (Some gets through, of course, but no more than a couple per
day.)

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Cheers,
Harvey

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:09:49 UTC, "Retired" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
> period .

That's what happens. Weekends and holidays give spammers more chnace to
get stuff out before they get shut down.

> In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post boxes, and I
> assume my wife will have received a similar number in hers.

Really not very much. I get thousands a week, but my main email address
is quite old.

> I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from the spam
> point of view I would simply be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
>
> Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of spam?

Dunno. I filter my own. Just put in greylisting on my mail servers and
it seems to have screwed it down further still.

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Retired wrote:
> I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
> period .
> In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post boxes, and I
> assume my wife will have received a similar number in hers.
>
> I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from the spam
> point of view I would simply be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
>
> Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of spam?

Hi there,

Do you know if your accounts are on the Postini anti-spam platform yet?

http://community.plus.net/comms/2007...pam-trialists/

If not register your interest here -

http://portal.plus.net/wizard/?wizard_id=20

We'll not be moving the next batch of trialists for a few days at best
but when we do you should find that the volume of spam reduces.

In addition to this I'd suggest contacting the support team. There's a
possibility depending on your circumstances that we can apply
black-holes, turn off catch-alls etc. to help reduce the volume of
unwanted mail you're getting.

Kind Rgds,

--
|Bob Pullen Broadband Solutions for
|Support Home & Business @
|PlusNet plc. www.plus.net
+------ PlusNet - The smarter way to broadband ------

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:09:49 -0000, "Retired" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
>period .
>In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post boxes, and I
>assume my wife will have received a similar number in hers.
>
>I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from the spam
>point of view I would simply be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
>
>Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of spam?
>
>Retired
>

I've used Demon for years. They use Cloudmark to control email spam.
It works very well. The few that get through Cloudmark are picked up
by client application that I use (Agent 4.2).

Too get a feel for how well Cloudmark works I have disabled it for a
few days occasionally. When it is disabled I get well over a hundred
spam a day. When it is enabled that drops to less than ten. Agent 4.2
catches them all but I prefer not to get them in the first place.

Steve

--
Neural Planner Software Ltd

http://www.easynn.com
http://www.tropheus.demon.co.uk

Retired wrote:

> I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
> period .

I've had a few more than is normal. Plusner USED to seem to catch most of it but
maybe their filters have gone tits up ?

Graham

HVS wrote:

> Not sure about ADSL providers, but the NTL (now Virgin) spam filters
> seem to work very well -- at least, I get very little spam in my
> inbox.

Spam is one reason I originally left NTL. My @ntlworld address was
finally getting around 250 spams a day before I abandoned it. Even
though I was using mailwasher, it was a chore dealing with it. It looked
like the spammers were simply using any random viable name.surname
combination @ntlworld.com.

Graham

"Retired" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
> period .
> In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post boxes, and I
> assume my wife will have received a similar number in hers.
>
> I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from the spam
> point of view I would simply be jumping out of the frying pan into the
> fire!
>
> Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of spam?
>
> Retired

i use a hotmail address, same one for about 10 years and get hardly any
spam, maybe 10/week getting through to my inbox, and this is using a proper
name ((E-Mail Removed)) not a random 123!(E-Mail Removed).
also, when i change isp i don't have to tell everyone a new address.

"PlusNet Support Team" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Retired wrote:
>> I'm with PlusNet, and have been inundated with spam during the holiday
>> period .
>> In the last 24 hours I have received 140 messages to two post boxes, and
>> I assume my wife will have received a similar number in hers.
>>
>> I am very tempted to change ISPs but would like to know if from the spam
>> point of view I would simply be jumping out of the frying pan into the
>> fire!
>>
>> Are their any ISPs which have reasonably effective control of spam?
>
> Hi there,
>
> Do you know if your accounts are on the Postini anti-spam platform yet?
>
> http://community.plus.net/comms/2007...pam-trialists/
>
> If not register your interest here -
>
> http://portal.plus.net/wizard/?wizard_id=20
>
> We'll not be moving the next batch of trialists for a few days at best but
> when we do you should find that the volume of spam reduces.
>
> In addition to this I'd suggest contacting the support team. There's a
> possibility depending on your circumstances that we can apply black-holes,
> turn off catch-alls etc. to help reduce the volume of unwanted mail you're
> getting.
>
> Kind Rgds,
>
> --
> |Bob Pullen Broadband Solutions for
> |Support Home & Business @
> |PlusNet plc. www.plus.net
> +------ PlusNet - The smarter way to broadband ------

I've just signed up for the Postini trial but the problem remains that,
until this is brought into operation, the *existing* spam-trap system
appears not to have been maintained/trained over the past few weeks.
I'm getting loads of it in my inbox lately and I'm sending it all back to
Plusnet via the despamchecker, with no effect so far.
It's all obvious spam, untagged by the existing system and the majority of
it is addressed to the same five-letter group @ myusername.plus.com
Regardless of the Postini trial, isn't it time that someone looked at what's
happening to the existing system?

George

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:(E-Mail Removed)
: : HVS wrote:
: :
: : : Not sure about ADSL providers, but the NTL (now
: : : Virgin) spam filters seem to work very well -- at
: : : least, I get very little spam in my inbox.
: :
: : Spam is one reason I originally left NTL. My @ntlworld
: : address was finally getting around 250 spams a day
: : before I abandoned it. Even though I was using
: : mailwasher, it was a chore dealing with it. It looked
: : like the spammers were simply using any random viable
: : name.surname combination @ntlworld.com.
: :
: : Graham

Do what I do and dump anything from anyone who isn't in your address book.
Anyone who isn't on there and wants to send me mail has to fill in the
form on my website first so I can vet them.

Ivor