Re: [APML] OT: Spam (was: Brian Larmay: You may have a virus)

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

For many US locations, particularly here in Calif, an excellent ISP that provides
such filtering is Sonic.net. They offer a Unix shell as well as PPP, and have a
web-based anti spam tool wrapped around Spam Assassin. They agressively go after
spammers, as well as provide extensive virus filtering which the user can opt to
use or not. I switched to Sonic from Netcom before it was bought by
Earthlink--thats about 5 years ago. Spam on Netcom had gotten overwhelming and has
become worse with Earthlink despite their advertising claims to the contrary.

My Incoming spam averages less than 2 per week despite the fact I belong to 26
Yahoo Groups.
Insert all the usual disclaimers about not being associated with Sonic, etc.

I am a very happy Sonic customer!

Steve


Shekhar Borde wrote:

> That is why it is better for your ISP to filter them.  If your ISP rejects the
> email, it bounces back and the spammer will then (hopefully) remove your email
> from his/her address list.  In any event, it doesn't really matter because you
> never see their emails.


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