> 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
>
Having the same problem exactly and making heavy use of the 'delete' button as
I am no expert in managing these things. Funnily enough we are no longer with
Tiscali but still receive mails as we haven't got round to changing addresses
with people we do want to hear from so it's too early to stop OE bringing them
in - it's a useful spur to get on with doing something though.
John
