Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs

2004-05-31 Thread Robert Newson
Jeremy Taffel wrote: I just had a look at my freeserve (wanadoo now) account. I have stopped using it because of the volume of spam. Over 4000 spams since mid-March! About 600 had virus attachments. Many did not even have my email address from what I could tell (how does that work?). Freeserve

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 vs Word 97

2004-05-31 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I've read that you have now played around with the priority settings, which on Win9x is probably the only thing you can do. If this is set to low QPC doesn't get enough CPU cycles and basically everything stops. NT/2000/XP users can also change the task priority (the one in the QPC config

Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs

2004-05-31 Thread Arnold Clarke
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Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs

2004-05-31 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Jeremy Taffel wrote: I just had a look at my freeserve (wanadoo now) account. I have stopped using it because of the volume of spam. Over 4000 spams since mid-March! About 600 had virus attachments. Many did not even have my

Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs

2004-05-31 Thread Robert Newson
Malcolm Cadman wrote: ... I have found it worthwhile to have a :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( address ) Mine's [now] called [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The only problem is that there is no filter available for my mail reader to filter on Envelope-to: - it would cut down the number of rules in my spam filter to

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Spam filtering

2004-05-31 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
With all this talk about spam filtering, let me just say how I do this (and it works very well I may add). Best solution for me it to have an e-mail client with good spam filtering. Mozilla Thunderbird does the trick for me. It is a very powerful and good e-mail client, and it has a wonderful

Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs

2004-05-31 Thread Dr Colin F Parsons
+50% of my Spam recieved came from Hotmail, that's why the generic hotmail.com and all its international variants is in my killfile, So your mail may not get through to it's intended recepients!! Cheers Colin - Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]