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?).
Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Newson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ql-users]Decent ISPs > > > > P Witte wrote: > > > > > Robert Newson writes: > > > > > >>>Im trying to get rid of my Tiscali account as Tiscali are obviously not > > >>>interested in my custom. Ive tried a few other ISPs, but they have so > > >>>far not proved reliable or decent - apart from Freeserve, now Wanado. > > >>> > > >>You must have a different definition of decent than I do. About 60% of > > >>the spam I get arrives from WANADOO.fr hosted sites. > > > > > This is a strange thing to write about one of our favourite hates, but > hotmail is virtually spam free. They have a special bulk mailings box from > which only the headers are downloaded and then only on request. You can > quickly look through these for genuine mail. This means very little spam > actually gets through to your inbox. It is one of the reasons I keep a > hotmail account and why this is the contact email address I use on my QL (on > topic!) websites. If hotmail can do this, why can't others? > > Incidentally I have had numerous attacks by the W32.Netsky.P @ mm!enc virus > over the last few days. This is a new variant so it's just as well to keep > your virus software up to date, > > Best wishes, > Geoff Wicks. > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
