 rag133
join:2001-02-06
Lansdale, PA | [E-mail] Comcast Spam Blockers are AWFUL I get spam emails from a poker website that keep coming. They are not from a hidden address or anything like that either. Ive reported them as spam like 20x and I still get them every day. Comcast spam blockers are pathetic. Google mail blocks these things after one report as spam, comcast can't do it after 20. |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | Uh huh. I have posted about the same issue here and at Comcast.net forums.
BrightMail might be a decent filter... we may never know. It sure does a crappy job over at Concast.net email.
My Yahoo *and* Hotmail accounts will screen an email after 1 (one) report. Jason at the Comcast.net forums stated that an email must be Reported by several users before it will get screened... WTF? 
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 bbrlogueLearning New Things DailyPremium
join:2003-12-07
Alexandria, VA | reply to rag133
Wait... Comcast HSI comes with email? Just kidding. |
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 macrospectAll The Little StuffPremium
join:2005-08-25
Doylestown, PA | reply to rag133
I use Firetrust's MailWasher Pro. Its a utility that operates separate from your e-mail program. You can selectively choose what is spam, and stop it from getting to your inbox. It also learns over time so most of the spam is automatically blocked. Its a nice little piece of software. I would recommend it. |
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | Thanks! But I don't use an email client. ALL web-based email for me.
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bbrlogueLearning New Things DailyPremium
join:2003-12-07
Alexandria, VA | Fastmail.fm (and tons of domain it offers) comes with a powerful Sieve plug-in, on top of Spamcop. The Sieve filter is customizable for paying customers only though, but very useful for me. |
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 MortyPremium
join:2004-09-18 | reply to rag133
Yep, I would have to agree that it is too lenient towards letting spam in, I'd rather have some of my actual mail get flagged as spam... This is something I've complained about for awhile, seeing as my Comcast.net e-mail is easily guessed using a dictionary. |
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I've delete comcast e-mail acct's because of the 100 or more spam mail everyday. |
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 sigPremium
join:2001-05-05 | reply to rag133
I have an AT&T dial up account which I use for email and overall BrightMail does a pretty good job sending spam to the junk mail folder. It's not perfect but it catches the vast majority of the spam.
With Comcast however, it's the exact opposite. Most of the spam lands in my inbox instead of the screened mail folder. And yet Comcast also uses BrightMail.
Has to be something in the implementation for such a radical difference between ISP's both using BrightMail. Strange. |
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I only have 1 Comcast e-mail address. That is the main one required when I signed up. Otherwise I don't use it.
Comcast e-mail is pure and simply crap. It is horrid.
I have used Yahoo, hotmail, netscape, msn, lycos,gmail, etc. None are as bad at blocking spam as the Comcast spam filter is. |
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 ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium
join:2002-03-03
Mullica Hill, NJ
kudos:4 | reply to rag133
SPAM cleaning Comcast email thru Google Gmail To cut down on the SPAM, one way I found was to take my Comcast email accounts and forward them to my Google gmail account. I still have Comcast's Brightmail filters active, but when the msgs go to Gmail, there are still plenty of msgs going to the Gmail SPAM folder. This has cut down the SPAM to 1 or 2 per day, instead of dozens.
P.S. Google Gmail can be accessed both thru the WEB interface and thru POP MAIL access using ENCRYPTED ports(465 out and 995 in). They even include a link to a little program that will configure the std email pgms for proper settings.
P.P.S. The SPAM folder keeps the spam for 30 days just in case you didn't see something you were expecting and thought something legit was treated as spam by mistake.
P.P.S. And if SPAM does still get into the INBOX folder, you can mark it as SPAM for GOOGLE attention. And they are pretty good at catching that in the future then.
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Re: [E-mail] Comcast Spam Blockers are AWFUL Ya I get about 12 spams a day. I go and hit the report as spam and they still come. Then they go to the delete file and I hit the report as spam again. These are the last list I Have.
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Blaine Pauline assay rutland bilk stuffy thistledown bring dext.. 12/31/05 3 KB
Downs Chang dollop not ron phonetic arouse , browse it's des.. 12/31/05 3 KB
Whitehead June calfskin blubber adventitious municipal thrombos.. 12/30/05 3 KB
Alberto Bell inundate 12/30/05 2 KB
Donnie Cobb above ! dionysian belate fitzgerald and coffer i.. 12/30/05 3 KB
eBay Get what you REALLY wanted... 12/30/05 17 KB
Salvador Faulk sport 12/30/05 2 KB
Raffaello Gute.. may adulate, Lonna see checkerboard 12/30/05 3 KB
Beverlee Wilkins Maddalena, see cataract 12/30/05 3 KB
Koehler Tackett decomposable it dielectric composure guarantee m.. 12/30/05 14 KB
Freddi Singhal Heidie, may veritable 12/30/05 3 KB
Avery Goldsmith conferrable 12/30/05 2 KB |
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 nxl5150Premium
join:2001-09-20
Bensalem, PA | reply to rag133
SpamPal has been great for killing spam that I've been receiving on my Comcast address; I went from 10-15 spam emails/day to 1-2. It's free, as well.
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I don't think it is the spam filters, It might be you need to change your account filter settings. I have mine set to only allow names and accounts from my address book; guess what? I get 1-2 spam sent to my suspect box in a month. So, check your settings, it might be worth it. |
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I don't know what some people do, but I barely get spam mail at all. And it is Firstname_Lastname. Might want to stop signing up for stuff and using that email addy. I have a separate email account I use to order/signup for stuff over the internet. |
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For some reason a lot of spam emails from a few certain sites ALWAYS get through my gmail spam filters! even if I report them 20 times..I have to create filters using keywords just for them to move into my trash :/ |
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 owinePremium
join:2002-08-29
Chicago, IL
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comcast is also the second largest ISP in the country so many spams go to their domains. i always tell people to use gmail for their everyday mail and not their ISP mail. besides, if comcast mail had a bunch of false positives, people would be right on the forums crying about it. there are many other solutions you can use and you arent stuck with comcast mail. i actually route all my mail through my VPS server which gives me spam assassin and then i use the thunderbird junk mail filter on top of that. its easy and it works better then any other solutions. |
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 wcweaverPremium
join:2002-02-22
Fort Myers, FL
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I get 20 to 30 a day of these stupid e-mails. Comcast does not seem to filter anything. I use Thunderbird as my mail client and it was getting rid of almost all this junk by sending them to a Junk folder. Then I made the mistake of installing Norton Internet Security with Spam Blocking. Norton started marking almost every e-mail as [Norton AntiSpam] but allowing all the messages to go into my inbox. It even marked messages that I sent to myself. Norton also interfered with the spam blocking in Thunderbird and now I am being inundated with Spam even after uninstalling Norton Internet Security. The only thing I can think of trying is to uninstall Thunderbird, clean the registry and reinstall Thunderbird. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 Reviews:
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What I find interesting is that Yahoo! SpamGuard does a great job of filtering email to two SBC e-mail accounts (pacbell.net domain) that I am managing. Yet some SBC Yahoo! customers complain that SpamGuard isn't working.
OTOH, my sister, a Comcast customer, thinks that Brightmail is doing a great job of filtering her Comcast email.
Maybe it just depends upon how you configure the filter options.
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MortyPremium
join:2004-09-18 | said by NormanS:What I find interesting is that Yahoo! SpamGuard does a great job of filtering email to two SBC e-mail accounts (pacbell.net domain) that I am managing. Yet some SBC Yahoo! customers complain that SpamGuard isn't working. OTOH, my sister, a Comcast customer, thinks that Brightmail is doing a great job of filtering her Comcast email. Maybe it just depends upon how you configure the filter options. Not really, I have to say it does a poor job. Myself, I get about 50 spam e-mails a day. As I said, mine is just my name, so it's easily guessed by a spam bot using a name dictionary. However, I've never used it for any online form, and it's not listed in any directory. And most of the e-mails should be easily flagged as spam even if only by the subject lines |
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