Hi, I have to say I have found Tiscali 'anti Spam' features are one of the worst on offer, even the extra 'paid for' option, to such an extent I refused to pay for it and have a recurring bill for £10.95 that they keep sending me and then resind when I call them.
I have sent an official letler to to them explaining to them that any further action by them on this matter which incurs action on my part, will be charged at £50.00 per/hour (or part thereof ) so far so good! A few months ago I was getting 140 -180 spams a day to my tiscali address, that was mails that had passed their 'Spam filter'. just FYI Adrian 2009/8/17 Roger Millin <[email protected]> > > > For years I haven't received any significant amount of spam due, I thought, > to an efficient at-source spam filtering by my ISP Tiscali. At one time you > could enhance your spam filters on your mail home page but this seemed to > stop after they introduced a chargeable spam and virus filtering at source. > The problem was so low that it wasn't even worth using Mailwasher. I don't > really want to subscribe to their chargeable method, even though the charge > is very low, as I don't need the anti-virus part of it due to my efficient > AV on the PC. > Over the last week or so I have experienced a sudden upsurge of spam (now > about 20 per day) and I can't understand what has changed. It is caught > pretty effectively (about 90% of it) by my Microsoft software and put into a > spam folder which is easy to delete but still I am concerned about the > sudden influx which used not to be a problem. Whether this is linked in some > way to the recent buy out of Tiscali by Car Phone Warehouse I'm not sure. > Has anyone else experienced a recent upsurge in spam and has anyone any > anti-spam suggestions other than returning to Mailwasher please?(I'm not > anti-Mailwsher just looking for newer alternatives). > Roger > > > -- Adrian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
