Spam

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:28 +0200, Øivind Hoel wrote:
> My spam folder here on gmail currently contains 871 items... so I'm
> hit hard by spam, but I haven't seen a single one creep up into any of
> my labels or my inbox. They seem to have a fantastic filter in
> place... 

So you mean that your ISP filters spam for you ?
Sounds good ! My ISP clearly isn't doing that... a few days ago I
started receiving spam talking in the name of my ISP, using their domain
name !!! Like:

"Hi, this is the mail server, sadly I was unable to deliver your mail,
there was error blah-blah."

And, attached, of course, is my "mail", which of course is a nice 40KB
Windows virus in a "ZIP" file...


You would expect the ISP to at least make sure that mail sent in their
name is actually theirs, no ?? I would e-mail them about it but like
with every ISP here, they are plain incompetent (at least the people
they let you have access to) and all you are allowed to do is pay every
month and shut up... pfff... what a world...
I think they must treat businesses much better than this, but as far as
joe public/consumers go, they don't give a toss. :-/


--
Vince, a bit fed up with ISP's in general...