Orange Spam Apeel!

A friend of mine has been with Wannafreeorange for years and receives incredible amounts of spam, over 900 yesterday alone!!! Is there anything that can be done about this as he says that Orange make no effort to control it. Change ISP the only option?

Edited by Andrew_W (Fri 19-Jan-07 12:36:21)

He could go into his Orange Webmail interface and turn on the spam filter. It is a bit over-enthusiatic though so he will need to monitor it for a while to pick up any valid emails that it flags, and add the senders to his allowed list.

Mine now picks up the vast majority of spam and only occasionally flags a new contact as spam or lets spam through into the inbox.

Thanks for that. I have forwarded your suggestion and it seems to be helping matters

You're welcome. Just keep an eye on it for a few weeks to catch the exceptions. And don't bother adding addresses to the blocked list - spammers never use the same address anyway.

I'll pass that on too but keep telling my friend to change ISP anyway

When i was with Free/Wana/Orange i used to get at least a 1,000 spam emails a day it was horrendous Orange wasnt in the least interested they would only change my emaill addy if i signed up for another 12 month contract (not likely) my last 6 months with them was impossible to use my freeserve address i deleted it from outlook and used Gmail till i migrated away i have had no spam whatsoever since.

That's exactly what my friend has done, gone Gmail!! But can I get him to change ISP....

PS Just replied to one of your posts on the other forum

I saw lol
I was with Free/Wan/Orange for 4 years i didnt change because i cudnt be bothered with the hassle but got so fed up with them especially when they changed their name to Orange ive never seen such horrendous CS and TS best thing i ever done was to ditch em last august wished ide done it earlier.

Never trust a Spaniard particularly with an Orange, can be very un-sevilla

LOL@very un-sevilla