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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I've made a note of this thread so that when NTL implement anti-spam software and accidentally wipe inboxes or flag 90% of emails as spam and there's a thread full of people bitching about it and NTL, I can point everyone here and remind them to be careful what they wish for 
Interesting about checking the homepage site and constructing email addresses from the directory listing. I just checked now and directory listing is enabled. I turn off directory listing as a matter of basic security. They also have server sig enabled "Apache/1.3.26 Server at homepage.ntlworld.com Port 80" which tells me they're using an old version of Apache. NTL huh 
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Agree with you about Mailwasher; its bounce feature is almost criminally irresponsible, and it's not as though they haven't been told. But as to server side spam filtering - in six months time that will be a forgotten argument, because either ntl will introduce it, or their entire mail system will collapse. As other providers implement it, clueless outfits like ntl will be exponentially targeted, and expanding server capacity to keep up will not be a viable option. They only real question is, will they implement it in as cack-handed away as they seem to do everything else? As for losing mail - well, that's already happening during mail server outtages anyway, despite their denials.
Incidentally, a support droid told me on the phone during the May mail fiasco that the reason for the outtages then was migration to new servers and the implementation of spam filtering, which would be complete by mid June. Lies or delays, I wonder?