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Old 18-11-2004, 18:52   #1
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4 million spam emails per day

source: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3775288

...and I thought I got a lot of it!
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Old 18-11-2004, 21:38   #2
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

Four Million a day
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Old 18-11-2004, 21:48   #3
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

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Four Million a day
I used to get over 200 a day, but in the last few days this figure has halved. Has NTL introduced a spam filter that I dont know about?
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

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I used to get over 200 a day, but in the last few days this figure has halved. Has NTL introduced a spam filter that I dont know about?
I believe they must have, my ntl spams have dropped by 50% in the last week.
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

Has NTL introduced a spam filter that I dont know about?

Er.... YES !!
But they've stopped lots of my valid emails which Im only just now realising that they've stopped !
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Old 18-11-2004, 21:56   #6
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

Interesting, I thought the spam filter was due to be introduced at the end of November. My e-mail is forwarded via Spamcop, and I haven't noticed any decrease in the amount of spam Spamcop is intercepting - yet.
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

I would have put this in just now but forgot where it was & only just found it.

Here you go......
http://www.ntlworld.com/help/aup/anti_spam.php

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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

This week the levels of spam have doubled on one account for me. Today has been a record breaker for me with 21 from midnight to now.
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

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Note to self - stop registering on boards etc as billgates@microsoft.com
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

I'm still getting the same amount of spam.Spamnet sorts it out though.
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

I bet 3,999,999 of them are porn
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

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I bet 3,999,999 of them are porn
Do you really think a man as rich as him needs that
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

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I would have put this in just now but forgot where it was & only just found it.

Here you go......
http://www.ntlworld.com/help/aup/anti_spam.php

good news then! Only 96 today....around half again
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Old 20-11-2004, 09:15   #15
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Re: 4 million spam emails per day

This statement from ntl that; "and any emails containing viruses will be removed"
seems a bit ambigouos.

They seem to have stopped emails that I want and also let through 4 W32.Beagle.AV & W.32netsky.D viruses.

If only there were a way to configure their end of the filtering ourselves.......
Maybe we could forward all unwanted & spams to mailto:billgates@microsoft.com he he

Although we would then be spammers ourselves !
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