[Rhodes22-list] What Gives? - Spam Filters

[Robert Skinner]

Slim and John,

I had to buy a new Vista laptop last week, and my venerable
and well understood WIN2K won't run on it - no drivers for
the new devices.  (Yeah, Slim, I believe you have a MAC,
but read on...)  I also had to migrate to new email and
browser packages - the ones I knew and loved got left in the
dust as MS beefed up their access control algorithms.

The fun began when I found that I had to actively disable the
heuristic spam filters in the email package.  After a few hours
trying to tune the email spam checker, I decided to disable it
all together.  John's point is substantiated - at least in my case. 

In Slim's case, perhaps an automatic update or a slip of the
mouse changed a setting, or his "smart" email decided it didn't
like some aspect of some Rhodes messages.

In any case, Slim, good luck in your battle with errant electrons!

/Robert
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John Lock wrote:
> At 07:59 PM 7/13/2008 -0500, Steven Alm wrote:
>
>   
>> testing 1, 2, 3... is this thing on?
>>
>> I've only gotten 6 posts in 3 days.  I posted two messages two days ago that
>> never showed up.
>>     
>
> The list appears to be working OK.  If you only seem to get 
> intermittent e-mails, the first thing to check is any spam filters 
> that may be in place on your computer or your ISP or e-mail 
> service.  Check the junk boxes.  If you have your filters set to 
> delete caught spam, you'll never know what you're missing.
>
> If you are still missing e-mails, contact me directly and give me 
> some details like approx. date and time of messages you sent and how 
> you sent them.  There is always the possibility that some IP blocks 
> are in place somewhere and I'll need the technical details to track that down.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
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