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scrotnig · 17-12-2004, 20:05

Once again, I will explain that an unless a company is specifically passing on email addresses to spammers (which ntl don't), they are NOT responsible for spam that comes to your address.

As has been pointed out above, harvesters will come up with plausible combinations of names and domains and throw spam at them, if you throw enough this way some of it will get there.

There are many people, such as myself, who DO NOT WANT our email 'pre-vetted' by a service provider and prefer to filter it at our end.

Blaming ISPs for spam is like blaming the post office for junk mail. They just deliver it.

17-12-2004, 20:05	#10
scrotnig cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,499	Re: NTL Junk Mail Once again, I will explain that an unless a company is specifically passing on email addresses to spammers (which ntl don't), they are NOT responsible for spam that comes to your address. As has been pointed out above, harvesters will come up with plausible combinations of names and domains and throw spam at them, if you throw enough this way some of it will get there. There are many people, such as myself, who DO NOT WANT our email 'pre-vetted' by a service provider and prefer to filter it at our end. Blaming ISPs for spam is like blaming the post office for junk mail. They just deliver it.