Reply to: Bloody BT Yahoo

[wendigo100]

The fact you are getting spam at all.

I've never suffered from spam and been with BT since day dot. Most people I talk too say they suffer from spam. Why?

Well, normally I don't either, because BT Yahoo's in-house SpamGuard intercepts it before it gets to my BT Yahoo Inbox, and chucks it into Bulk (a sort of rubbish bin where it stays for a month until BT deletes it). My Outlook client downloads from the BT Yahoo Inbox, so I never see the spam.

However, SpamGuard has started chucking all my legit mail into Bulk as well, which is why I've got to log on directly to BT Yahoo and go fishing around in there to rescue it.

[hattra]

Maybe people want to talk to them

[OrangeHopper]

What do you mean, mac related? The problem is happening on BT Yahoo's servers. It has nothing to do with my end.

The fact you are getting spam at all.

I've never suffered from spam and been with BT since day dot. Most people I talk too say they suffer from spam. Why?

[wendigo100]

I seriously wonder if this is a mac related thing because I've never suffered from spam.

The occasional email with a virus - which of course didn't work - but no spam.

What do you mean, mac related? The problem is happening on BT Yahoo's servers. It has nothing to do with my end.

[OrangeHopper]

I seriously wonder if this is a mac related thing because I've never suffered from spam.

The occasional email with a virus - which of course didn't work - but no spam.

[NoddY]

I'm dismayed you don't run your own mail server.

[wendigo100]

Not looked for a long time but I thought you could simply configure BT mail to send you everything then you can sort it yourself.

The only time I had to do anything was when they upgraded my account and automatically switched on the spam sweeper. Had to switch it off to stop it swipping all my legitimate mail.

You can, but I get ten times as much spam as legit mail.

I can't be arsed with downloading it all to my laptop, just so I can delete it here, so I find it easier to log into their server and pick out the good mail from the spam bucket.

So much for BT Yahoo SpamGuard.

[OrangeHopper]

Not looked for a long time but I thought you could simply configure BT mail to send you everything then you can sort it yourself.

The only time I had to do anything was when they upgraded my account and automatically switched on the spam sweeper. Had to switch it off to stop it swipping all my legitimate mail.

[MrsGoof]

Well Wendigo looks like you are testing the software yourself , saves Yahoo/BT having to employ testers. Now if you could also bug fix and send in some ideas on what they need to do then that would help them as well.

Replace BT with Microsoft and ........

[Bitbucket]

Well Wendigo looks like you are testing the software yourself , saves Yahoo/BT having to employ testers. Now if you could also bug fix and send in some ideas on what they need to do then that would help them as well.

[Fleetwood]

its

[TheMonkey]

Oh for god's sake buy a domain and get some REAL hosting with a small business that HAS to look after it's clients. I think mine cost about £20 a year and has not given me the arse once yet!

http://www.krystal.co.uk/

[meridian]

Completely agree. I test in the finance area, and with the onset of IFRS and then SOX we warned the users that testing would take longer due to the extra regulation and the need to provide proven test results.
Were deadlines moved to take that into account? Were they hell!

[janey]

yup totally agree... the prevailing attitude seems to be "testing? what's that?"

the place I'm at now seems to be much better though I have to admit. whereas in other places I've worked development teams and development projects have increased but testing teams have remained the same (that's if they haven't decreased) this place seems to be actively increasing their testing resources and investing money into training them.

[Fleetwood]

Indeed, Threaded.
It's got to go in on time and on budget.
Testing it just slows the whole process down...