ntlworld mail rant

[kat]

David Derrick said

>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>> throw their head-office building.
>
> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
> long time.
>

Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
address. Or anything else for that matter.


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

David Derrick said

>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>> throw their head-office building.
>
> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
> long time.
>

Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
address. Or anything else for that matter.


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

David Derrick said

>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>> throw their head-office building.
>
> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
> long time.
>

Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
address. Or anything else for that matter.


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

David Derrick said

>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>> throw their head-office building.
>
> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
> long time.
>

Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
address. Or anything else for that matter.


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

David Derrick said

>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>> throw their head-office building.
>
> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
> long time.
>

Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
address. Or anything else for that matter.


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[Chris Croughton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
<[email protected]> wrote:

> David Derrick said
>
>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>>> throw their head-office building.
>>
>> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
>> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
>> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
>> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
>> long time.
>
> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
> address. Or anything else for that matter.

I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services as
a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again about
broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and one
telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to 150k).

My system checks it, and all of my other remote mail addresses, twice an
hour normally (I can also 'kick' it by hand if I'm expecting something
urgent)...

Chris C

 

[Chris Croughton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
<[email protected]> wrote:

> David Derrick said
>
>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>>> throw their head-office building.
>>
>> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
>> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
>> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
>> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
>> long time.
>
> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
> address. Or anything else for that matter.

I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services as
a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again about
broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and one
telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to 150k).

My system checks it, and all of my other remote mail addresses, twice an
hour normally (I can also 'kick' it by hand if I'm expecting something
urgent)...

Chris C

 

[Chris Croughton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
<[email protected]> wrote:

> David Derrick said
>
>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>>> throw their head-office building.
>>
>> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
>> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
>> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
>> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
>> long time.
>
> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
> address. Or anything else for that matter.

I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services as
a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again about
broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and one
telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to 150k).

My system checks it, and all of my other remote mail addresses, twice an
hour normally (I can also 'kick' it by hand if I'm expecting something
urgent)...

Chris C

 

[Chris Croughton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
<[email protected]> wrote:

> David Derrick said
>
>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>>> throw their head-office building.
>>
>> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
>> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
>> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
>> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
>> long time.
>
> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
> address. Or anything else for that matter.

I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services as
a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again about
broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and one
telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to 150k).

My system checks it, and all of my other remote mail addresses, twice an
hour normally (I can also 'kick' it by hand if I'm expecting something
urgent)...

Chris C

 

[Chris Croughton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
<[email protected]> wrote:

> David Derrick said
>
>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>>> throw their head-office building.
>>
>> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
>> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
>> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
>> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
>> long time.
>
> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
> address. Or anything else for that matter.

I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services as
a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again about
broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and one
telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to 150k).

My system checks it, and all of my other remote mail addresses, twice an
hour normally (I can also 'kick' it by hand if I'm expecting something
urgent)...

Chris C

 

[Chris Croughton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
<[email protected]> wrote:

> David Derrick said
>
>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, to my mind, that NTL have
>>> an "arrangement" with some murketer or other. Based on my
>>> experience, I'd be inclined to trust them about as far as I could
>>> throw their head-office building.
>>
>> This has definitely happened at some point. I signed up to NTLworld
>> as a backup dialup. The email address was *never* used but within a
>> week junk started coming into the inbox. Presumably it's still
>> arriving and clogging up their servers. I haven't checked for a very
>> long time.
>
> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
> address. Or anything else for that matter.

I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services as
a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again about
broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and one
telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to 150k).

My system checks it, and all of my other remote mail addresses, twice an
hour normally (I can also 'kick' it by hand if I'm expecting something
urgent)...

Chris C

 

[kat]

Chris Croughton said
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
>> address. Or anything else for that matter.
>
> I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
> address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services
> as a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again
> about broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and
> one telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to
> 150k).

I believe it has been suggested that the addresses which seem to get the
spam are those on PAYG accounts. But that is what mine is, a separate
one to that on broadband. Interestly I just checked the main email on
that - again it isn't used as such, but it is stuffed with spam - though
not the sort that looks like it starts "Dear Ntl User", indeed the
latest - from Mandy - invites mr kat to "keep it up".


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

Chris Croughton said
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
>> address. Or anything else for that matter.
>
> I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
> address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services
> as a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again
> about broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and
> one telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to
> 150k).

I believe it has been suggested that the addresses which seem to get the
spam are those on PAYG accounts. But that is what mine is, a separate
one to that on broadband. Interestly I just checked the main email on
that - again it isn't used as such, but it is stuffed with spam - though
not the sort that looks like it starts "Dear Ntl User", indeed the
latest - from Mandy - invites mr kat to "keep it up".


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

Chris Croughton said
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
>> address. Or anything else for that matter.
>
> I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
> address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services
> as a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again
> about broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and
> one telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to
> 150k).

I believe it has been suggested that the addresses which seem to get the
spam are those on PAYG accounts. But that is what mine is, a separate
one to that on broadband. Interestly I just checked the main email on
that - again it isn't used as such, but it is stuffed with spam - though
not the sort that looks like it starts "Dear Ntl User", indeed the
latest - from Mandy - invites mr kat to "keep it up".


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

Chris Croughton said
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
>> address. Or anything else for that matter.
>
> I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
> address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services
> as a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again
> about broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and
> one telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to
> 150k).

I believe it has been suggested that the addresses which seem to get the
spam are those on PAYG accounts. But that is what mine is, a separate
one to that on broadband. Interestly I just checked the main email on
that - again it isn't used as such, but it is stuffed with spam - though
not the sort that looks like it starts "Dear Ntl User", indeed the
latest - from Mandy - invites mr kat to "keep it up".


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

Chris Croughton said
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
>> address. Or anything else for that matter.
>
> I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
> address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services
> as a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again
> about broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and
> one telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to
> 150k).

I believe it has been suggested that the addresses which seem to get the
spam are those on PAYG accounts. But that is what mine is, a separate
one to that on broadband. Interestly I just checked the main email on
that - again it isn't used as such, but it is stuffed with spam - though
not the sort that looks like it starts "Dear Ntl User", indeed the
latest - from Mandy - invites mr kat to "keep it up".


--
kat
>^..^<

 

[kat]

Chris Croughton said
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:05 +0100, kat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny thing, I never get any spam at all on my never-used primary
>> address. Or anything else for that matter.
>
> I have had, I believe, three items of mail from NTL on my ntlworld
> address, nothing else at all. One of them was from Customer Services
> as a "welcome to broadband" message, one from a test engineer (again
> about broadband, I joined at the start of the trials in my area) and
> one telling me something had changed (possibly the 128k going up to
> 150k).

I believe it has been suggested that the addresses which seem to get the
spam are those on PAYG accounts. But that is what mine is, a separate
one to that on broadband. Interestly I just checked the main email on
that - again it isn't used as such, but it is stuffed with spam - though
not the sort that looks like it starts "Dear Ntl User", indeed the
latest - from Mandy - invites mr kat to "keep it up".


--
kat
>^..^<