[access-uk] Re: SWAMPED WITH RUBBISH/SPAM/MAYBE PAWN
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:06:33 +0100
I do know what you mean here Carol. I have to be vigilent with Spamjab,
although I've done
enough training of it by now for it not to get much wrong; and when you think
about it,
there is no fool proof method of deciding what is and isn't spam.
This said, it is increasingly obvious to me that there is more ISPs can do to
reduce this,
and I'm glad to say that Beeb.net, which was beeing spammed relentlessly, has
tidied it's
act up and I'm getting far fewer of these nasties finding their way through to
Spamjab's
filter. All the bank ones have disappeared altogether at the moment.
Your first line of defense aught to be, therefore, an ISP who takes spam
filtering
seriously, and Fast Mail has been mentioned in this regard and I can tell you
that
Googlemail, if you can get on to that, is also good at keeping it at bay.
Most providers will enable you to forward mail to another adress, and, short of
setting up
another POP3 account, this can be quite a good way to tackle the spam problem.
I've already mentioned Cloudmark. It is good, but paid for.
From Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Carol Pearson
Yes, thanks for general agreement on this one. These messages are
particularly difficult to filter out because they random subjects and
senders' names. I did try Spamjab fairly recently and, again, found they
filtered out that which I wanted to read. With this current batch, no
sender crops up a second time <Smile>
Ugh! I only wish that I could get rid of my email address without the
hassle but, actually, it's the main one NTL issued us when we joined and I
understand (although of course we don't have to use it) it's there to stay.
--
Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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