Hello Corey, Cheers for the heads up. All would be a bed of roses if my jolly business did not historically rely on a Xtra email account. I pay them every month for the privilege of redirection to ZIP who is the best as far as I am concerned. Otherwise, I would close down with Xtra in 1 ms; no, make that .0000001 ms. Cheers, Alistair+
Monday, November 24, 2003, 3:14:17 PM, you wrote: CM> Alistair George wrote: >> Hi all. >> Xtra has done it again. this time right over the top. If you get emails marked >> as [spam] from xtra be really careful about deleting them. I have accidentally >> deleted several and only found yesterday their filter is not working properly. >> I phoned their helpdesk to get it disabled entirely and they cant! CM> Ok, update... CM> Talked to my friend at Xtra. Basically they bought a pre-packaged spam CM> filter with no opt-out capability and bloody high false-positive CM> detection rates. They decided that they'd wait and see whether anyone CM> was willing to kick up a stink about the privacy issues... basically CM> it'll take a class action suit in court to make them quit it. CM> To quote: "Get them to complain - will force the issue and put pressure CM> on Brightmail (the vendor) to provide opt-out capability. Is really a CM> product limitation" CM> That's from about as high as I can get in Xtra's organisation... which CM> is pretty darn high. CM> My suggestion: run, do not walk, to the nearest cheap alternative to CM> Xtra and vote with your cash. Spread the word to all your friends on CM> Xtra to move to an ISP that does actually give a damn about its customers. -- Regards, Alistair+ _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
