How does Lycos handle spam?
With our new Lycos Mail service, we’ve simplified the Spam filtering process, to make it more accurate. Lycos Mail users no longer have low, medium or high spam filter settings. Our new system simply allows you to turn the spam filtering on, off, or allowed list only. When the spam filtering is turned on, our system will automatically check the mail coming into your account, to ensure that it hasn’t been labeled as spam by various spam reporting agencies around the world. If the subject, sender, or content of the e-mail matches something in any of the known spam databases, our system will automatically place that item in your Junk Mail folder. While spam databases are generally up-to-date, no filtering process is perfect. Especially in today’s day and age, where spam is constantly changing, evolving, and adapting to spam filtering rules. We cannot 100% guarantee that you will never receive a single piece of mail. That would almost be an impossible claim to make. However, we can guarant
