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    Posted: 14 June 2004 at 11:41am

I noticed a signigicant drop since Friday. Did some checking...
Comcast started blocking port 25 a while ago, and about a week ago, took additional measures to prevent spam from being generated on their subscribers local machines.

These measures may impact Comcast subscribers who are users of Web Wiz software who are running SMTP on their local machines. According to the article linked below, there appears to be some workaround available.

About 10% of all worldwide spam originates on the Comcast network. Some people estimate that 15-25% of all US spam originates there.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5230615.html

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I have noticed a drop since April 
Hardly get spam anymore
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i have seen a drop in spam (junk emails).

but spam with viruses are high for me i get about 50 -100 a day which is not good. coz i have to go through and sort them from the ones i need.

the number of viruses i recieve are growing every day.

god help me if i don't check the mail for a day
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Originally posted by Semikolon Semikolon wrote:

I have noticed a drop since April 
Hardly get spam anymore

I am to. I used to get lots of viruses to but these are falling. I guess that wwg is a common web site and so gets more SPAM
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I wish I had noticed a drop my junk box for the last 7 days still contains the usually amount of 19,864
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wait one f**king moment... would that mean that SMTP wouldn't work if you're using comcast???
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