AT&T refuses to act on spam reports, so seeing their customers - the people who make it possible for them to stay in the ISP business - suffering due to yet another "management" disaster at AT&T cause a bit of schadenfreude.

Paris, because she's as smart as AT&T's management, and somewhat more decorative.

Funny, AOL has been doing this same thing for *years* and no one has complained one bit!

Anyone who relies on content-based spam filters should shut up about their mail being lost. It's their fault for expecting a machine to remove spam rather than holding the senders accountable. E-mail has degraded into one big "Just Hit Delete (for me)" pile of crap.

People with DNS2Go don't have static IP addresses (that's why they use dns2Go). Email should not be coming from dynamic IP addresses. Spam is sent by zombie computers, which are mostly running on dynamic IP addresses. Because home users (also on dynamic IPs) don't install updates, allowing hackers to turn their PCs into spam-sending zombies.

Maybe ATT finally got a clue and are using SpamHaus' PBL to block the traffic.

Don't talk to SMTP senders who are on ISPs that say their dynamic IP blocks don't send SMTP except through their local server. This is what PBL is all about. I bet DNS2Go users have been getting a free ride until now.

This is a problem I've had for years, and recently Microsoft Office spam filter has started throwing proper business emails inot my Junk folder. Since I get nearly 10,000 spam emails a month I'd much rather have a few false-negatives than search 10,000 emails for a few false positives. I know warnings back to the sender about mail being junked help the spammers, but there's got to be some indication!

If you -rely- on email for work then that's your own problem anyway. Email is the most unreliable form of communication. Why people take it so seriously when we have so many other methods of information transmission is beyond me.

Paris because I'd like to check out her filters ;-)

I have used Yahoo! since introduced email. I use their Spam filter & find I have about

1000 emails in my Spam folder. They are deleted after a week in the Spam folder, so this doesn't affect me. If someone later contacts me (by phone,) saying I have not replied & I find their mail in the Spam folder, I mark it as NOT-SPAM & the problem is resolved. Yahoo! Rock!

AT&PEE is #1 on my list of companies not to do business with... The users not receiving email will learn that too.

About 6 months ago my att account had an order of magnitude increase in incoming spam, not clear why, must have hit someone's button. The ATT mail servers also seem to go down at least once a day (I presume by design), the mail folder size is tiny (although they did expand it several months ago, so that now several hundred spams can fit in instead of only 50 or 60).

I've pretty much given up on them, and will give them the axe after switching hundreds of accounts over to a redirected domain that *I* control, not some privacy hating spam spewing corporation (ATT gets blocked periodically by other domains due to failing to control spam emissions. I no longer send outbound email through ATT, tired of having email blocked.).