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195594	2003-11-28 22:25:00	Hi All, I haven't been around as much lately so apologies if theres already been a post on this, couldn't find one though. I was just curious to hear about how other people are finding the new xtra spam filter? Mainly, in paticular if anybody has noticed a sudden "influx" in spam since the filtering started?? As from the day the spam filter came into effect i have started getting spam to an address that has been relatively spam free for the past few years. Just thought it seemed a very strange coincidence... Has anybody else noticed this influx with their personal e-mail addys they have managed to keep relatively spam free?? To xtras credit the filter is picking them up ;-) And before anybody suggests it, it is new spam, its not just tagging legit stuff as spam. I know its inevitable that we will eventually get spam no matter how careful one is, however i am interested to see if anybody else has noticed the same coincidence...	J ZEP (336)
195595	2003-11-28 22:48:00	the occasional spam gets through	MrBeef (342)
195596	2003-11-28 22:50:00	hi ya JZ, well to be honest i have not kicked it into action as such, i am still using mailwasher and Poppa John had a post on this same thing and had enormous trouble getting it set up and so put me off even looking at the thing.... but yes i have noticed more stupid emails than normal getting through the system..... mailwasher picks them up but most (not all ) have been tagged by Xtra already to say (SPAM) but am wondering if its not a little busyier than normal. i was getting maybe one a day? i have 3 websites advertising my email addy so thats to be expected, but it is risen to 4- 10 a day at moment... so i dont know if im better off or not??? any help? beetle	beetle (243)
195597	2003-11-29 00:26:00	This xtra spam filter is in the same league as sliced bread, instant coffee, and Ford motor cars, ie excellent. I have been finding maybe one spam every two days getting through, but zillions getting caught and going to the deleted items mailbox. Good on you xtra you are beating the spaming scum. You have my vote as isp of the century tedheath	tedheath (537)
195598	2003-11-29 08:30:00	> This xtra spam filter is in the same league as sliced > bread, instant coffee, and Ford motor cars, ie > excellent. > I have been finding maybe one spam every two days > getting through, but zillions getting caught and > going to the deleted items mailbox. > Good on you xtra you are beating the spaming scum. > You have my vote as isp of the century > > tedheath I totally agree Ted. It seems to be working very very well To be honest, the spam filter is something a five year old kid could set up, so I don't understand why Poppa is having problems. It is totally uncomplicated in the extreme. About as simple as you could possibly get	Baldy (26)
195599	2003-11-29 11:29:00	Perhaps tedheath is the result of exactly what J ZEP was talking about. It would require a far greater study, but if what beetle and J ZEP have said is true, it would appear that upon introducing the spam filter, some people have had an increase of spam - not email messages being marked as spam, but an actual increase in the amount of spam they receive. As blind as some users may be, this tends to point that, in order to make customers happy with Xtra for picking up all this spam, they employed some dodgy tactics, along the lines of giving email addresses of customers to spammers so that said customers would notice an increase of the number of spam messages, but would also notice that Xtra was marking all of these as spam. You get my drift. It would be a corporate reality to do such things, and I wouldn't put it past anyone if it meant they would receive good feedback and such.	agent (30)
195600	2003-11-29 12:09:00	> Perhaps tedheath is the result of exactly what J ZEP > was talking about. > > It would require a far greater study, but if what > beetle and J ZEP have said is true, it would appear > that upon introducing the spam filter, some people > have had an increase of spam - not email messages > being marked as spam, but an actual increase in the > amount of spam they receive. > > As blind as some users may be, this tends to point > that, in order to make customers happy with Xtra for > picking up all this spam, they employed some dodgy > tactics, along the lines of giving email addresses of > customers to spammers so that said customers would > notice an increase of the number of spam messages, > but would also notice that Xtra was marking all of > these as spam. > > You get my drift. It would be a corporate reality to > do such things, and I wouldn't put it past anyone if > it meant they would receive good feedback and such. PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,PARANOIA, PARANOIA,	Baldy (26)
195601	2003-11-29 17:20:00	Friend used to get 100 - 200 a day. She now gets none. I used to get 5 - 6 spam a day handled by mailwasher. I now get 0 a day mailwasher has gone. it works	sam m (517)
195602	2003-11-29 17:26:00	> As blind as some users may be, this tends to point > that, in order to make customers happy with Xtra for > picking up all this spam Agent I think you know what makes you go blind ;) > You get my drift. It would be a corporate reality to > do such things, and I wouldn't put it past anyone if > it meant they would receive good feedback and such. ditto baldy	sam m (517)
195603	2003-11-29 20:30:00	I have left the xtra spam settings at their default level. All I have done is make a message rule to delete any message with the word spam in the subject Since xtra rename the subject with spam its pretty cool. Although I have had some false positives with this topic because it has the word spam in the subject. As far as agents" they are out to get you scenario" he may need medical help.	tedheath (537)
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