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paulyoung666

06-04-2004 20:03

Re: NTL inactive on spam, viruses and broadband

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Originally Posted by poolking

One way to stop spam is to be careful where on the internet you publish your email address.

Add extra characters to your email address to prevent email harvesters from spamming you afterwards.

dont always work though :(

chickendippers

06-04-2004 23:09

Re: NTL inactive on spam, viruses and broadband

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Originally Posted by dragon

true but surly ntl could just put spam assassin on their servers

Spam Assasin is a standard cPanel feature, it's not as if ntl is running their broadband and web hosting services off cPanel, although ome to think of the performance and problems they probably are :rolleyes:

(BTW, the get the joke you have to understand that cPanel is a terribly unstable web control panel...yea, it's poor :()

freeair

07-04-2004 04:02

Re: NTL inactive on spam, viruses and broadband

A question regarding spam.

I run Spampal and generally just delete the spam but decided to have a look at some of the headers after reading the post linked to earlier.

I notice that a number of spam msgs are not actually addressed to me, for example if I were joe.bloggs@ntl the emails may be addressed to j.bloggs@ntl or joe2.bloggs but some have no similarity to my email address at all (apart from @ntl) nor can I see any cc with my actual address.

Can someone explain this please?

SMHarman

07-04-2004 09:46

Re: NTL inactive on spam, viruses and broadband

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Originally Posted by freeair

You are a BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) on the address list, not a To or CC. You should be able to see yourself there.

Ron Jeremy

07-04-2004 23:00

Re: How should NTL handle spam ?

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Originally Posted by SMHarman

I said block at the server, but I think the option to opt out is something that should exist.

As I said on the other thread, from what I have read about my POP server providers Demons solution, this looks to be a sensible solution in that up to 17% of spam will get through, but the chances of incorrect flagging are virtually 0.

Brightmail the provider of the solution have set up e-mail accounts at hosts globally. These have never been publicised on the web. If a mail arrives in the in box of one of these accounts, by default it must be spam and is blacklisted.

yes ntl need to start using brightmail. see http://www.brightmail.com
they are very good.
they have massively cut down the amount of spam users recieve on hotmail.

Ron Jeremy

07-04-2004 23:03

Re: NTL inactive on spam, viruses and broadband

Quote:

Originally Posted by SMHarman

The problem for the ISP is that they want 0 false positives.

Demon have put this in place it makes a noticable difference to my in box.

http://www.demon.net/pressreleases/2...3-12-10a.shtml

http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/faq/spamfiltering.shtml

http://www.brightmail.com/enterprise-as-benefits.html

Brightmail claim a 99.9999% false positive rate.

Brightmail are the market leaders. They do a very good job. Ntl desperately need them.

aardvark

08-04-2004 07:34

Re: [Merged] Spam/Viruses on ntl.

This may have come up earlier but...

which anti-spam software do you guys recommend?

is there any free software that's any good?

i've started to get loads of spam ... guess it's due to me being careless with my email address!

Theodoric

09-04-2004 12:32

Re: [Merged] Spam/Viruses on ntl.

Quote:

Originally Posted by aardvark

Mailwasher does a free verison that worked OK when I used it. The free version allows you 1 main and 1 Hotmail address. Worth a try.

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