Paris Hilton spam

FYI - I get about 50 spams a week to my NTL address - compared to about 75 a week to my virgin.net address, 20 a week to my hotmail and 90 a week to my orange.net account.

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

The trouble is that they will get complaints from people if they start blocking mails. I have sugested before that they run some form of AI software like spam asasin and simply flag the mail. The end user could then set up a rule to zap the crap - so to speak.

Problem with that is that AI routines are traditionally very processor intensive, especially heuristics like those used in SA. It's fine for a home machine but lets face it, NTL's mail servers can't cope as it is without the extra burden of spam filtering.

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

Problem with that is that AI routines are traditionally very processor intensive, especially heuristics like those used in SA. It's fine for a home machine but lets face it, NTL's mail servers can't cope as it is without the extra burden of spam filtering.

They could always upgrade both hamsters and change the sunflower seed stock !!!!
It would easily cope then.........Besides its already been upgraded from a Tomy speak and spell box !!!

[Mr.Moony]

And who says sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Mr.Moony

And who says sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

I dont know m8 - but I bet he said it shortly after spending 45 minutes on hold to NTL !!

[ntl customer]

What is this stuff about the Paris Hilton about anyway? :o

[Florence]

Originally Posted by ntl customer

What is this stuff about the Paris Hilton about anyway? :o

I will post my next one I am sure to have a few today they couldn't miss on hte last day of the year.

[Florence]

New they wouldn't miss this is hot of the email with another arrived straight after it.

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Subject: Paris Hilton has a wilder side - on video here!
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Happy reading

[ntl customer]

Ah, so that's what they got up to in the Paris Hilton

Clicking on the unsubscribe link takes you to something trying to sell you some stupid mail "protection" product...

http://www.qweasd.biz/adstats/gone.php

[Sociable]

Still chuckle at the number of companies that find it appropriate to use spam to promote an anti-spam product lost by the irony of their own marketing strategy. LOL

[Florence]

Originally Posted by ntl customer

Ah, so that's what they got up to in the Paris Hilton

Clicking on the unsubscribe link takes you to something trying to sell you some stupid mail "protection" product...

http://www.qweasd.biz/adstats/gone.php

planning on an early vacation then

[luftys]

I dont get any spam on ntl being an old customer I am just ignored

[Sociable]

Originally Posted by luftys

I dont get any spam on ntl being an old customer I am just ignored

Just so you don't feel left out:


http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.htm

And also this one:

[luftys]

Originally Posted by Sociable

Just so you don't feel left out:


http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.htm

And also this one:

Thank you was watching Python last night,still makes me laugh

[looselipsuk]

I wonder why good old NTL do not do something along the lines of AOL (oops I better wash my mouth out for saying that word).
Recieved this from one of the groups I belong to.
No wonder the e-mail servers keep going down when you realise that (cough) AOL blocked over 500 billion spam e-mails last year.


Get Out of Debt! AOL Releases Top Spam List
Wed December 31, 2003 05:31 PM ET

By Ben Berkowitz
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Viagra. Lowest mortgage rates. Hot XXX action. As seen on Oprah. Still reading? Seen this somewhere?

Those four phrases and six more topped the list of the most commonly-used subject lines for junk, or "spam" e-mail in 2003, Internet service provider AOL said on Wednesday.

Other top enticements, the Time Warner Inc. unit said, included "online pharmacy," "get bigger," "online degree," "lowest insurance rates," "work from home" and "get out of debt."

Unsolicited commercial e-mail is considered a scourge of the Internet and, as governments rush to regulate or ban the sending of spam, private companies and service providers have also stepped up efforts to create filtering software that blocks such messages.

During calendar 2003, AOL blocked nearly 500 billion spam messages from reaching user inboxes, an average of 40 fewer such messages per day per subscriber account. The company said it regularly blocks 75 percent to 80 percent of incoming mail as spam.

The manager of AOL's postmaster team, which oversees e-mail, said new laws and regulations had made spam more complex by knocking "amateurs" out of the business.

"I don't know that they're really getting smarter, but I think we're really sorting out the wheat from the chaff," Charles Stiles told Reuters.

Fighting spam is also a more difficult problem than it used to be, Stiles said, as professional spammers take to using tricks like spelling words slightly wrong, replacing letters with numbers and adding spaces in the middle of words in order to fool filters.

"I think the biggest challenge is getting to the die-hard spammers," Stiles said. "They will break the law, they will abuse other peoples computers, they will steal network space."
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