Martin says...
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:24:25 +0000, Sacha
wrote:
On 10/1/08 17:59, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote:
Sacha says...
In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the
Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to
have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is
on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify!
Best to use an email address associated with your own web
site domain name. That way you own the email address and it
doesn't matter who you use as an ISP or for that matter who
does the web hosting. You can move and change providers as
you like then. I think it may also look more professional
to use an email address that matches the web site domain.
Yes, that's going to be part of the new site that's being built now. Most
of it is done and running but the mail order bits and smaller tweaks still
need doing.
I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo
/ Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address
suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week. Odd
thing was I never used that address anyway, so the spammers
could only have got the email address directly from Wanadoo
/ Orange? Perhaps a hacker got in and lifted everyone's
email address. Lots of people were hit at the same time.
I have had over 5k of junk mail since just before Christmas.
I get around 100 a day. Orange.nl provides a service to identify and isolate
junk mail and viruses. None of it gets as far as my PC.
orange.fr now supply a similar feature. However, the odd
spam (1 in 50) still reaches the orange inbox. Since
abandoning the account the only valid email is orange's
monthly bill.
I've only got dial up here in rural France and the Orange
web site is incredibly slow to load (around 2 - 3 minutes)
due to all the high definition advert images, so I rarely
visit orange web mail. Or go and make a coffee while their
site loads! Occasionally I go and tip all the spam into the
junk folder. Knowing Orange, if the amount of spam was
allowed to reach ridiculous proportions they would probably
start charging for extra disk space or do they
automatically delete spam after so long anyway?
I change my main personal, domain based, email address
around once a year if it starts picking up spam. So in
practice spam isn't really a problem for me.
I use a password protected email address for contact via my
web site and for strangers and that completely throws the
spammers.
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David in Normandy