+50% of my Spam recieved came from Hotmail, that's why the generic hotmail.com and all its international variants is in my killfile, So your mail may not get through to it's intended recepients!!
Cheers Colin ----- 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 http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
