new spam filter options - Page 3

jkthorp · 30-07-2005, 19:16

having set it to tag, i'm finding it pretty reliable so far

its picking up the same as mailwasher, and some spam that mailwasher doesn't, and vice-versa!still, don't like the idea of auto deletion though!

John1 · 31-07-2005, 00:50

Thank you Maverick
for the heads-up about this latest enterprise from NTL.

I have been in and set my 'Spam' to forward marked as spam.
Which in my opinion is how it should have been anyway.

I will do what i can to inform others,
but it won't be much.

Cheers, John

31-07-2005, 11:57

NTL's spam software is working ok IMHO it's stopped 90% of mine this last week, no good mails have been blocked only the spam ones. Yesterday only 2 spam mails got through, not bad to say I used to get in excess of 60 per day.

Raistlin · 31-07-2005, 12:01

I've been in and turned all of the SPAM filtering off, and told it to deliver my mail unmarked/unchanged/exactly the way it is.

progers · 01-08-2005, 08:59

I was concerned that I was receiving little e mail or SPAM when I noticed the announcement about the SPAM filter.

Went in and turned SPAM filtering off as I have efficient software to do that job (necessary with ntl e-mail accounts) and am still getting little e mail or SPAM.

Maybe nobody loves me????

jonbr · 01-08-2005, 09:16

I suspect it may not be worth sending NTL any email complaining about how they set this up; they probably will have them filtered and deleted as SPAM by the new SPAM filtering system

APS · 01-08-2005, 10:41

I changed my settings, for a couple of email accounts, to filter and mark, and so far it has been 100% effective with no false positives.

One thing I noted was the change to the settings did not appear to happen immediately. Someone in the know might like to comment on this but it is possible that changes only get uploaded to the servers doing the filtering on a timed basis (as it common practise with some other systems like this I have used.).

APS

01-08-2005, 13:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nidge

NTL's spam software is working ok IMHO it's stopped 90% of mine this last week, no good mails have been blocked only the spam ones...

How do you know for certain that no wanted emails have been blocked?

beardsley · 01-08-2005, 15:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by andygrif

2. Send an email to customers. They manage to send me their own marketing SPAM informing me of products I already have, so why not use that system to tell me how to use their spam filter?

They probably did send an email, but it got marked as spam and automatically deleted

greencreeper · 01-08-2005, 22:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by ikthius

I never knew about this option, and it was set as default to delete.

I want all my mail, even spam, as I will let my application deal with spam.

I don't want ntl to decide what to delete, and what not to delete, as it may not delete the correct things.

Bad touch NTL

Totally agree with you. I'm doing my nut

I've lost a few emails that I know of. The ****ers

**Maggy** · 01-08-2005, 23:50

Thank you for the heads up..I too would rather leave it to let cloudmark sort out what is spam.it does it much more efficiently than the ntl filter would appear to.

I'm wondering If I've lost any email notifications from my yahoo groups.

I shall have to check.

maverick · 02-08-2005, 22:18

Just a quick thank you to all who have repped me for this thread,

Many thanks Maverick.

progers · 07-08-2005, 20:34

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone who has turned off the ntl SPAM filter now gets more mail.

I turned it off on 31 July and am still getting virtually no SPAM through...this worries me, is the filter really cabable of being turned off????

Toto · 07-08-2005, 22:28

I've had my option turned onto move spam to webmail folder, and for the past seven days the Brightmail server has not made a single mistake. And geting 20-30 spams a day, that's a pretty good statistic.

Because Brightmail collects data on spam from all the organizations that use its system, ntl have come in at the right time, as there should be less false positives.

Given the PC experience level of the majority of ntl subscribers, this is just the kind of thing they have been looking for.

I suspect that those who are not happy with nl's decision to add spam filtering will do well to go to a non filtered service such as G-Mail, bigger mail storage and more options.

Well done ntl, a good and reliable spam filtering service thus far.

progers · 07-08-2005, 22:49

SORTED

I was expecting that logging on to the main account turned off SPAM on all accounts...not so, you need to change each one individually