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Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter?

Posted by timothy on from the gmail-does-alright dept.

An anonymous reader writes with the question in the title: does your ISP do a decent job culling spam? The reason I'm asking is that my ISP is Verizon and the Verizon spam filter is next to useless. It only blocks 15% of spam while also blocking 5% of legitimate emails. I've tried calling Verizon support a couple of times and the experience is about as pleasant and productive as banging my head on a wall. At this point I think my best move is to change ISP, but before I go around changing my email address at probably dozens of web sites I'd like to be sure that a new ISP would actually be better.

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  1. Why use ISP email? by Strider- · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uhmmm, why are you using your ISP's email in the first place? It's far better to use a third party email provider, so that you can switch ISPs at will without having to change your email address.

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  2. Did you mean to submit this to SlashDot? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> my ISP is Verizon and the Verizon spam filter

    Not too many people 'round here are dumb enough to use their ISP as their email provider. Fix that problem first. (Closes ticket.)