[Sussex] SPAM catcher

Steven Dobson steve at dobson.org
Fri May 5 10:15:45 UTC 2006


Jon

Long time - no speak

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:38 +0100, Jon Fautley wrote:
> Brendan Whelan wrote:
> > My occasional messages to the group are consistently being caught by the 
> > SPAM catcher!
> >  
> > Is this a general problem of is it just my messages?
> >  
> > I wonder if this one will get through?
> 
> It did 

Not without approval from me.

> - but I'm almost certain it's to do with the fact that you're:
> 
> a) You're sending HTML email (don't get me started...)
> b) You're posting using MS Outlook. I would think the lug.org.uk spam 
> filters are now 'training' themselves to give MS spam^Wgenerated emails 
> a higher spam rating.
> 
> Try sending proper, polite mails (i.e. plaintext), and getting another 
> mail client :)

And if a post get marked as spam then replys to it tend to get trapped
too.  Which is why you got caught I think.

Steve
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