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> I am really fed up with the amount of spam I'm getting - about 180-200 per
> day - and don't see any sign of clara putting in spam filters to stop them
> clogging up my inbox.

Sadly, spam is something that is almost impossible to get shut of 
completely. BTinternet now offer a free filtering service, but I wouldn`t 
recommend BT to anyone...

I`m with Pipex, and seem to have been quite lucky in the 10 months i`ve 
been with them - i`ve probably had less than 10 in total, although my 
accounts with other ISPs are continually battered.

Mailwasher can help cut down the amount of crap a lot - you see a list of 
the emails before you download them, and can quickly sort out the usual 
"enlargement" crap. It also has "friends" filters so they bypass any 
other spam filtering you set up.

I now get something like a 95% success rate in automatically killing off 
the crap* but this involves massive domain blacklisting, and country code 
blocking.

* I see it listed, but its tagged for deletion automatically

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* old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam  *
--- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) ---

Caaagh wrote:

> Hi
> I have been with clara for years, upgrading from dial-up to the broadband
> service last December - so I'm now at the end of my year's contract.
> 
> I am really fed up with the amount of spam I'm getting - about 180-200 per
> day - and don't see any sign of clara putting in spam filters to stop them
> clogging up my inbox.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a service I can change to?  I pay clara �30 a month,
> and I'm not looking for cheapest, but one which actually looks after
> customers.  I have a BT line and don't have/want cable.
> 
> Thanks for any replys!
> Sheila
> 
> 
> 


PlusNet offer a Secuirty Package (which includes Up to date Virus 
Checking & Spam Filtering). This is included within a few of their ADSL 
package, but is an "Add-On" on the others.

HTH

Regards,
John

"Caaagh" <sheila"hatesspammers"atclaradotnet@spam.invalid> wrote in
news:1070800499.25475.0@ersa.uk.clara.net: 

> Hi
> I have been with clara for years, upgrading from dial-up to the
> broadband service last December - so I'm now at the end of my year's
> contract. 
> 
> I am really fed up with the amount of spam I'm getting - about 180-200
> per day - and don't see any sign of clara putting in spam filters to
> stop them clogging up my inbox.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a service I can change to?  I pay clara �30 a
> month, and I'm not looking for cheapest, but one which actually looks
> after customers.  I have a BT line and don't have/want cable.

i find spamcop very effective, costs me $30 a year for an email account.

another option would be to spend a tenner on a domain name so you use 
anyaddress@yourdomain.com and you can track who's sending you the stuff and 
shut addresses down when you need to.

regards
Paul
-- 
paul <at> spamcop.net

> Mailwasher can help cut down the amount of crap a lot

PS: the new version limits you to one account - the older freeware betas 
are fine with multiple accounts, but have some minor bugs - see the 
read_me for more info

I`ve got some of the older versions online for download:

http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/mailwasher/read_me_1st.txt
http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/mailwasher/mailwasher2b21.exe
http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/mailwasher/mailwasher2b28.exe
http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/mailwasher/filters.txt
http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/mailwasher/blacklist.txt

Note - I block most country coding in my blacklist, so you might want to 
edit them if you get mail from a particular place.

* I tend to block an entire domain if I start to receive spam from it

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There isn't any easy way to stop it. ISP filters may take out emails you
want e.g. if you get emails from any commercial organisation. The best thing
to do is change your email address(es), use some unpredictable
name and never use it in any public place, usenet or website. But even that
doesn't work for long.
I have started a new email and in just a few days started to receive
Nigerian 419 spams, but at least not others.

If you want safe email preview and delete program: ScanMailBox is free and
has no restrictions.
Use Google to find it.
Regards,
Martin

Caaagh wrote:

> Hi
> I have been with clara for years, upgrading from dial-up to the broadband
> service last December - so I'm now at the end of my year's contract.
> 
> I am really fed up with the amount of spam I'm getting - about 180-200 per
> day - and don't see any sign of clara putting in spam filters to stop them
> clogging up my inbox.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a service I can change to?  I pay clara �30 a month,
> and I'm not looking for cheapest, but one which actually looks after
> customers.  I have a BT line and don't have/want cable.
> 
Have you seen the beta test of Clara's Spam filters?  Seems to get rid
of at least 90% of my spam - nearly as good as SpamCop.

See claranet.betetest for details.
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Running on GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2)     hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:35:02 -0000, "Caaagh" <sheila"hatesspammers"atclaradotnet@spam.invalid> wrote:
>I am really fed up with the amount of spam I'm getting - about 180-200 per
>day - and don't see any sign of clara putting in spam filters to stop them
>clogging up my inbox.
>
>Can anyone recommend a service I can change to?  I pay clara �30 a month,
>and I'm not looking for cheapest, but one which actually looks after
>customers.  I have a BT line and don't have/want cable.

Demon have just announced that they will introduce optional spam filters

Tim


-- 
Tim Sharrock   (tim@sharrock.org.uk)