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Originally Posted by altis
For an instant solution - change your email address! It's not as painful as it sounds.
1) Visit:
http://www.ntlworld.com/help/custome...ilOptions.html
2) Follow 'add extra email boxes' and set up a new email account.
3) Go to the same page but now follow 'set up an autoreply to your email'. Enter your old account details and then set up a message that says something like 'Sorry about this.... spam.... aaagh... please use my new email address which is xxxx at ntlworld dot com'. Anyone that sends an email to your old address will receive this message. Humans will be able to act on it but spam engines will just throw it away. Sorted. |
That really does look like a possible solution -- except that it's the e-mail address that I have been using for a long time as my authenticating address, e.g. for ordering things online, etc. So when I place an order, or arrange to renew a subscription, etc., a message automatically goes to that address and I have to reply to it, or click on a link in it, to prove that it's really me placing the order or renewing the subscription or whatever. Clearly the automatic message sent to me wouldn't read or act on the automated reply explaining that I have changed my e-mail address...
Still, it might be worth setting such things up all over again with the new address, I suppose. Thanks, anyway.
Brian