OT: ISPs in SE United States

Here's a life lesson for you: Learn not to depend on others.

If you can access your email via a pop server, there's no reason why you can't take care of your own problems yourself - ie: use a decent email client that has robust client-side filtering capabilities...

Or yu could tale a pop mail service with an ISP over here - claranet - and have access to spam filters you can configure yourself that eliminate at least 95% of it.

Nothing says you have to use te same ISP for mail as you do to get a conection.

Most only require you send mail thrtough their relays - where you collect it from is your own business.

It happens that Dennis Leonhardi formulated :

I use Mozilla Thunderbird with my Road Runner connection. It has a "smart" junk filter that learns what you do and don't want over time. Before I upgraded from the beta here a couple of weeks ago, it was filtering 95% of my spam. When I upgraded, it had to start over with the learning process, but it's already eliminating the bulk of the spam I get.

You're never going to find a totally spam-free haven, unless you give up email completely. spam is completely unpredictable; it could be anything from anyone. How are you going to filter that?

Ask US Family. They seem to be able to predict who will relay the trash. Using their services in Minnesota, New York and North Carolina, I averaged easily less than 6 unwanted emails per month. While using the internet much more heavily than I do now.

Road Runner, on the other hand - while advertising their "fabulous" (or something like that) spam filtering - flat out tells me it's my job. As if to say I might just want something from the services that relay spam emails by the jillions.

The problem lies when you are trying to figure out who's problem it is that you can't access your email, both will point at the other party. Trust me I tried!

Oh well. I spent many years debugging Internet connections. I telll them where the problem lies, not the other wy around.

You know? Somehow that doesn't surprise me about you! Eventually you might even get one right.

Missed you in London! Sorry you couldn't make it!

Got enough right to sell the business and retire at 50.

I try never to go there. Its full of people like you.

I think that just supports the adadge about being able to fool some of the people all of the time! Makes you and the AMA two of a kind there!

Funny? I didn't see that many Americans there. I think you're just overly sensitive as a result of your anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism.

I assume all who suggested I use a mail service over & above my ISP also use

Dennis

'Your kind of people' amd americans are not the same thing, sweety. I see they got that old Klux man busted and up for trial finally. A relative one assumes?

Don't appear to be more stupid than you have to.

I know its hard, coming from where you do, but at least make the effort.

Hey D.H., Why don't you take on as your New Year's Resolution an attempt at looking semi intelligent and stop hammering other folks who are not your followers. Or, in your words, at least make the effort.

Yet another adage demonstrated by D.H. He ASSUMES!

Wrong again D.H. If he's related to anyone here, it would most certainly be you! After all, like you the Klan hates Jews to name just one!

Go easy on him, Six, with his shitty outlook on life he must be struggling for some reason to even get up in the morning ...

:)

"Six_O'Clock_High" >

Trash like D.H. doesn't deserve easy. They're the cause of most problems in the world. Not the solution!

wonder what makes you think I do?