Spam/junk Mail

[Wasp27]

We recently upgraded from Telecom Dial-Up to Telstra-Clear P.D.Q Accelerate Broadband. In the last 2 weeks we have received 6 emails not addressed to us. 2 of these have come from Nigeria-wanting investment in Mining shares (Yeah Right) 2 others were confirmation of orders for various sex aids (from different sources) and the other 2 were in a foreign language. Chinapanese by the look of it. Anywho I thought I.S.Ps were supposed to filter this out. In the previous 2 years we have never received any mail not addressed to us.
Question#1, Is it OK to simply click 'Delete' to get rid of them or what?
Question#2, Anyone else having this problem since upgrading to Broadband?

P.S. To their credit Telstra-Clear have issued us with 1x free 10g Download Pack per Month until 17th Dec 06 and also Last Week came an offer of a free upgrade from 2mps (Accelerate) to 3.5mps(Turbo) Let me say after 2 years of Dial-up speed this Turbo is awesome. Cheers W

[pervert]

Just delete them, they pose no threat if you ignore them.

Some ISP's filter them, some charge to, and others don't do it at all.

6 is nothing, one of my old addresses I used to use to sign up to various sites got over 600 a day until they closed it down.

[Karma]

spunk mail... hahah

[ManDownUnder]

In the early days set up a bullshit email addres you use for applying for anything online.

Keep your real email address a more closely guarded secret...

[Wasp27]

Just delete them, they pose no threat if you ignore them.



Thanks for that, Cheers W

[zadok]

I right click on any I get and delete them, without opening them. (I'm thinking that it is possible for the sender to tell if they are read or not)

[MOTOXXX]

thats pretty normal.

count yourself lucky you dont have your own exchange server.

then youll see spam

[pervert]

(I'm thinking that it is possible for the sender to tell if they are read or not)

No, it's not.

[Gremlin]

count yourself lucky you dont have your own exchange server.

then youll see spam
urgh... its crazy... some are still getting through... we seem to not be able to catch the random word spams.... even the learning system can't nail them.

blocking over 100,000 a month for clients... :gob:

[MOTOXXX]

Yea there little bastards they are. We use a lot of GFI and some mail marshal.

GFI seems to be good when configured correctly