[DM-MUG] Mediacom or DSL in DSM

Ray Bowler dmmug@dmmug.org
Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:32:32 -0500


At 9:42 AM -0500 on 6/21/04, Victoria L. Herring wrote about Re: 
[DM-MUG] Mediacom or DSL in DSM:
>>I use DWX, a local internet provider, which essentially leases 
>>gives DSL through Qwest.  Recently they added a new spam filter 
>>that I really like.  It dumps all suspect email into a junk site, 
>>and then sends me a daily email that reviews the suspected spam and 
>>allows me to delete or release it as I see fit.  I can also add 
>>people to my "white list" so that it remembers they are not 
>>spammers.
>
>
>That's like Spamblocker technology that Earthlink uses and it is 
>great....I wish more ISPs would use it.  I don't know if Mediacom 
>has it, but then I use mediacom as my hardware mainly and other 
>sites as my ISP

MediaCom has a spam filter. It is fairly good but you have to go into 
WebMail on their site to check and see what it is filtering. I have 
never found any false positives but a few spam mails so get through.
-- 
Ray

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