George and Jimmie, I have a local ISP (not hispeed), and we use postini as the spam blocker, I really like it. You program it to what you want, and how you want it to work. About once a week or so, they (the computer) sends a message to me telling that I have messages in my spam email box. I go in and check it, and delete all that I don't want and forward the ones I want to keep. Normally, maybe about 5 or so in a 100 messages do I forward. Note that if you don't check this within a 14 day period, all messages that are 14 days old will be deleted. I have seen several spam programs from different friends locally, and this is the best I have seen. It also catches any viruses and let's me know, so I can go in and delete them also. In reality, I am protected twice, once with this and another on my own computer for virus's. FYI... Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rev. Jimmie A. & Nancy Daves" <waitpcg@gohighspeed.com> To: <BROYLES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [BROYLES] ATTENTION All Comcast Users! READ THIS! > George, > > I am not sure of Comcast, but I believe I have an answer for you. > > Highspeed uses postini as their spam filter software, which does the same > thing.. > > But when we loginto this site, we can go to the " Junk Email Settings " at > the top of the page, and then go to the bottom of the page and follow the > directions: our page looks like this: > > Sender Lists > > Approved Addresses will allow senders to bypass the junk email filters. > Blocked Addresses will keep messages from reaching your inbox. > > Are you trying to approve an email mailing list or newsgroup? Yes Button > > Approved Senders > To approve email from an entire domain, > enter addresses in the form "domain.com". > > I don't no if this is the same as in Comcast but, if it is, in the approved > senders list, list rootsweb.com and any other common list that you have in > your own filters. > > I agree, it's a pain in the rear....but that is what I have found to play > their game. > > Jimmie

At 10/30/03 07:38 AM Thursday, Bill Ikerd wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >George and Jimmie, > >I have a local ISP (not hispeed), and we use postini as the spam >blocker, I >really like it. >You program it to what you want, and how you want it to work. >About once a week or so, they (the computer) sends a message to me >telling >that I have messages in my spam email box. I go in and check it, and >delete >all that I don't want and forward the ones I want to keep. >Normally, maybe about 5 or so in a 100 messages do I forward. Note >that if >you don't check this within a 14 day period, all messages that are 14 >days >old will be deleted. >I have seen several spam programs from different friends locally, and >this >is the best I have seen. >It also catches any viruses and let's me know, so I can go in and >delete >them also. >In reality, I am protected twice, once with this and another on my own >computer for virus's. >FYI... > >Bill >(snipped) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** I applaud the efforts of ISP's to weed out spam. Our complaint was that Comcast never let anyone know they were automatically stopping some emails because their software deemed them SPAM. Further, Comcast sends no alerts to the fact that there are emails in the Spam Mailbox! And, I can't find anywhere on the website any information that the offending emails are deleted after a certain time period. I'm sure Comcast hasn't been wise enough to automatically erase them after 14 days, or whatever. That's the problem -- users' storage space at Comcast fills up to the 10 Mb limit, then the users can't receive any more email!!!!! And, they can't go to the website and delete the SPAMS because THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT !!!!! Regards, SgtGeorge