re: I'm feeling left out

I too have been a very happy plusnet user for years. I too use my own domain names forwarded through to gmail (after plusnet's last lot of major email problems). Every site I subscribe to has a different email address so I know the origins of any spam I get.

Nobody knows my ISP plusnet email address - no-one needs to know it - it's why I have my own domains. I have successfully avoided spam for years. I could never see what the fuss was about with spam as I was 'controlling' it all very succesfully. However, since this latest plusnet I'm now getting high volumes of spam coming through to me. Not just my plusnet addresses but other non-plusnet ones too that used to be forwarded on to me via plusnet's systems.

Spammers may very well be making up the addresses but, if they have, they've been remarkably successful in the last 2 days and very suspiciously at just about the same time that plusnet have admitted that a third party has illegally got hold of data from their systems.

Wear your blinkers if you like but plusnet have really dropped the ball on this one.

Unhappy PlusNet User :o(