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Story: Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain
Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 1 November 2003, 9:25 PM)
I too used to subscribe to tesco.net. Although I never divulged my email address to anybody I didn't trust, I was inundated with spam, and was forced to abandon the email account. There was strong evidence that the tesco.net site had been broken into, and a complete list of primary email addresses taken and sold to various spammers.
Since I subscribed to ntlworld.com, I have had no spam at all - although my daughter occasionally gets spam about phone services. Barring disasters such as the tesco.net debacle above, the usual way to attract spam is to post to usenet newsgroups using your real email address. "Spambots" regularly trawl these groups collecting email addresses to add to spam lists. I always post as "brian@nospam.net".
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Story: Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain
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BT is the biggest sinner of all when it comes to i... Anonymous -
Absolute rubbish!
Your just as likely to suffer fr... Anonymous
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Get a Mac!!!
With Apple's great machines - no spyw... Jim Clover
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NTL are a very suportive, and are at the moment pr... Richard Wilkes
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NTL are gash! They are slowly becoming the RyanAir... Anonymous
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BT Broadband has made my business fly and cut down... Anonymous
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Spam overload is due to user carelessness.
The ma... Anonymous
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NTL broadband is excellent.
I've had NTL broadban... Anonymous
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I use NTL Broadband, have never told anyone my NTL... Anonymous
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No, users should NOT have to be scared of giving t... anonymous
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I've had BB (ADSL) for almost two years
and I woul... Anonymous
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I too used to subscribe to tesco.net. Although I n... Anonymous -
You must have blagged it into you IT job then... Anonymous -
we took on wholesale broadband services to configu... john drinkwater
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With AOL BB I receive on average 2 or 3 junk mail... Anonymous
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One of the largest failings of Broadband is the in... John Drinkwater (another)
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Lack of filtering, lack of mail features, too much... Gareth Lewis
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re AOL Broadband: I had AOL 8.00, no problems, e... Anonymous
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Um... just one small point.
Tesco = NTL
NTL = Tesc... NTL Tech Monkey
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