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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I agree with luv-snail. (I can' say I love them, but I do hate treading on them  ) I accept the point that spam is crippling networks, but I think that if muppet users, who should never be let near a toaster let alone a PC, didn't respond to spam and effectively filtered it out using something like Spampal, then the spammers would go away - spamming would no longer be profitable.
For me, the issue is that NTL is doing the filtering. Since when did they get anything right first time? They can't even offer a reliable email service. They'll just make a mess of it and many, many customers will find legitimate emails being blocked. Save yourselves - find another ISP now, while there's still time 
If NTL is currently filtering spam, then it's not working that well judging by the amount I get. |
Much of ntl's problems with their mail service has been because of the millions of spam messages sent to ntl users, and has nothing to do with people responding to spam. Most spam is generated by dictionary attacks against a network, and addresses harvested from virus infected PC's
Oh, and describng millions of Internet users as muppets......not good, its thanks to these millions that we have competition for cheaper and faster services
ntl is blocking spam right now, I've seen a difference, but not enough of a difference to say its effective in the mainstream. I've not yet lost any email I was expecting, so so far so good, but that is not to say it won't happen, and that it may cause me problems in the future.