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Originally Posted by alanf617
so if Spampal can catch it, I don't see why NTL can't filter it....
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The issue is more about "do we want NTL to do the filtering?". And this issue has been done to death elsewhere
In summary, people are divided into two camps: (1) the optimists who, despite NTL failing to run a decent email service and generally being a pretty poor ISP, firmly believe that NTL can run spam filter(s) and not delete all their important emails; (2) the realists who don't trust NTL to do anything right and who would much rather manage their own emails and spam. I'm in the latter camp
If NTL did introduce spam filtering, and it's a big "if" given the costs and logistics involved, then they would have to give customers a choice of filtered or unfiltered email, otherwise I for one will be looking elsewhere for email provision. There are other fine detail problems such as, "If NTL maintains it's own blacklists, will the blacklisted be able to remove their IP address(es) from the list(s)" Bear in mind that NTL's own customers have trouble contacting them, so how third parties will fare, I don't know
If you run Zone Alarm, particularly Pro, you might want to review the virus rules for the regex filter in Spampal. I've removed the include for the virus rules file and added some Zone Alarm specific rules instead.