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The difference you're seeing is because the default configuration for FairPoint's mail system is to mark spam e-mails with *SPAM* in the title but still deliver them to your inbox. (Verizon would by default quarantine spam e-mails on their e-mail server.) You can change this to quarantine or delete spam e-mails at FairPoint's e-mail server, which will then function similarly to how Verizon filtered out spam before you saw it.
Go to www.myfairpoint.net, click on the "WEBMAIL" link at the top right corner of the page, then sign in to FP's Webmail using your FP e-mail address and password. Click on the "Preferences" link at the top of the page, then click on the "Spam Preferences" link on the left side of the next page. The third option group on the right side of the page will show "I want Spam Filtering to:".
You can either select "Delete Spam" or "Quarantine Spam"; the former causes spam e-mail to be immediately deleted, while the latter causes spam e-mail to be placed in a separate spam folder on FP's e-mail server. Both will have the same end result; spam e-mail will not be delivered to your Outlook Express inbox.
You can also set up Outlook Express to filter spam e-mails on the receiving end. Here's a good tutorial on how to do that: »
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