NTL Spam detection
 

Evenin

Anyone here feel that the NTL blocking of spam has waned a bit recently. i was very happy when they introduced and noticed a great reduction but of late my spam hits have crept back up again..... anyone

oh i know it could be the spammers becoming ever more cunning until NTL's outsourced solution catches up but i'm curious has anyone else noticed?

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Messagelabs March Report makes interesting reading linked to at http://www.messagelabs.com/emailthreats/ also click on the spam tab on the graphs.This shows a growing trend of spam mail with a slight dip in March but i gather that April will increase.
Spam generally is on the increase so if NTL block x% and allow y% then as spam mail gets bigger every month so does the y% amount that gets through.There is also an article on spam zombie bots on the October link on that url i gave above zombie bots are harder to overcome.
NTL's system is NOT outsourced by the way

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Frick ntl's spam detection, that's not too bad; it's MSN/Hotmail that need to improve theirs, and that's all unsolicited. Plus I don't really give my email address out, I use separate ones for forums/getting serials/signing up for stuff etc etc... silly aren't they?

The "Report Junk" doesn't sort it very well either.

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u see i knew i'd get hammered for that 'outsourced' remark... ok did i not read it on this forum or is it that they are using a set up provided by another company.... anyhow didn't mean anythin by it.

i take on board how you've explained the spam, makes sense. I use Spampal which i'm very happy with so its not as if any of it makes the slightest difference. Just glad that its a general trend a not a piece of software not running properly or a router misconfigured.

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my spam went from 100+:mad: per day and plumeted to about 10:disturbd:

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Found this link that may be of interest.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050427/sfw126.html?.v=3

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I keep my spam in da fridge:D

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spam, eggs, sausage and spam?

seriously though, I thought Hotmail's spam filter worked quite well... any I've received at any time has gone straight to Junk Mail.
I havent used my NTL email account for a long time, but I just checked it a moment ago on webmail (that was a long winded process... so slow!) and no spam... I used to get quite a few.

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Well not all of mine does, and even then Thunderbird picks up the bulk folder.

I've reported them and still, instead of the ****ing stuff not getting through like it's supposed to, it goes into the bladdy inbox.

But then, MSN are the most incompetent buffoons I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with so it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

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About 3/4 of my total mail is spam.. :rolleyes:

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[QUOTE=Toto]Found this link that may be of interest.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050427/sfw126.html?.v=3[/QUOTE]
Buying a product and outsourcing aren't the same thing..

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[QUOTE=simbr]The link was meant to show what ntl are doing about spam, and I felt it was worth mentioning in the context of this discussion.

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[QUOTE=Toto]
exactly, I have noticed a reduction in spam messages ;)

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[QUOTE=homealone]
I'm still getting over 100 spam mails a day. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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Someone must like you then :p: I don't even 100 e-mails in total a day :erm: