On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 14:12 +0100, Paul Stead wrote: > Being UK based we get a lot of email from these connections. > In the past I've received a lot of 'commercial messages', IOW spam by another name, that claimed to be from BT and probably was although it came from apparently unrelated UK-based mass-mailers who changed every few months. As none of it was ever of interest, this only provided me with a list of nuisance e-mail sources to add to my blacklist.
However, I haven't seen any of this stuff for quite some time now. FWIW I don't and won't ever buy internet services or streaming TV from BT. I remember phorm and other underhand tricks only too well! Martin