Notice a Drop in SPAM?
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Topic: Notice a Drop in SPAM?
Posted By: dpyers
Subject: Notice a Drop in SPAM?
Date Posted: 14 June 2004 at 11:41am
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I noticed a signigicant drop since Friday. Did some checking... 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 - http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5230615.html ------------- 
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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 14 June 2004 at 12:02pm
I have noticed a drop since April  Hardly get spam anymore |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 14 June 2004 at 3:02pm
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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 |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 5:50am
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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 |
Semikolon wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 9:13am
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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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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 2:30pm
Must be all the Viagra you're buying  -------------
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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 3:37pm
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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 3:38pm
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wait one f**king moment... would that mean that SMTP wouldn't work if you're using comcast??? ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 3:40pm
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that might be why SMTP could never ever send emails when i tried to set it up... arrrgh ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 3:43pm
| Surely you can just change the port it runs on... |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 4:08pm
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 4:08pm
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If you read the link in the first post it looks like comcast are only
blocking port 25 on those accounts found to be sending mass emails.
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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 4:15pm
i kinda skipped over the first three paragraphs when i read... lol... selectively blocking... makes me feel better. Still don't know why SMTP won't work  ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |