Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-26 Thread Colin Parsons
Hi there, Anyone on BT connections, particularly BT Yahoo broadband, should check it's spam filter. I just did and found 14 QL list messages. The other week when there was Reverse engineering in the subject, I found 25 messges blocked!! Cheers Colin Dilwyn Jones wrote: ... There is an

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-21 Thread Robert Newson
Dilwyn Jones wrote: ... There is an issue in particular with NTL which is causing havoc. The root cause is spam, and many ISPs inept efforts at pre-filtering. I remember chaos at Demon a few years ago, when someone decided to put them on a blacklist because one of their customers had an

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 at 14:41:06, Robert Newson wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dilwyn Jones wrote: One of my contacts using freeserve,co,uk is having terrible trouble. Approximately 50% of her emails get filtered out somewhere in transit. That is curious. My old email address[1] was with

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-21 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Hi Malcolm, I also find it better to get *every* email. Better as get it rejected from the ISP. Cheers...Ralf R. - Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email A good way of getting rid of spam if you

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-21 Thread Dilwyn Jones
A good way of getting rid of spam if you are getting a lot of it, although after the event, is to use a webmail service to look at what your ISP has waiting for you on their email server. You can then delete it there, before you download. I have found that to be effective. Although it

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-21 Thread John Gilpin
I shall watch the show calendar with renewed interest Geoff. I wonder if Quanta will pay committee expenses if one decides to attend? John Gilpin. - Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-21 Thread P Witte
Dilwyn Jones writes: You could always download the headers of all messages without downloading the bodies. (The pop3 TOP command sends the message header along with the first n (specified) lines of the message - if specified as 0, only the header is sent.) This is actually not too

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-20 Thread Dilwyn Jones
One is inclined in general to that if one gets no reply to an email that the party concerned did not have the decency to decline interest, as I did some time ago about a Dilwyn/Tesco. It would seem intrusive to resend. Email seems to work so well for the greater part one hesitates to blame

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-20 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 10:30:35, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) How do these ISP spam filterings work? Do they pattern match emails (i.e. look at it, that's spam, add it to the list and stop every copy of that email) or simply decide that a particular isp seems to carry a lot of

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-19 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 01:18:38, David Tubbs wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) At 08:41 17/01/2006 +, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably because their pint = 16FlOz to match 1lb = 16Oz, whereas the imperial pint = 20flOz. Cheers, Norman.replied to a mail that never reached me

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-19 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 09:52:03, Tony Firshman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) My ISP does absolutely nothing other than spend £100,00 plus whoops - £100,000 to cope with the spam traffic. That is fine by me - I would rather be in control of my own filters. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido

Re: [ql-users] Dodgy Email

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Newson
David Tubbs wrote: One of my contacts using freeserve,co,uk is having terrible trouble. Approximately 50% of her emails get filtered out somewhere in transit. As you see, I use same, and Wanadoo ISP, they don't remove spam, just mark it. Very little gets under and a tiny number of false