Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-17 Thread John
With Earthlink, it's ONE USER! He's a "press agent" type; not infected with malware, he *IS* malware. He'll piss off Spam-Eating-Monkey (the service PDML's host subscribes to) and gets the IP address for the mail server he happened to hit when he sent out his crap banned for 48 hours or so. If

Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-17 Thread Jostein
"No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) – and the associated costs in time and effort." Quote from Wikipedia page on antispam:

Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-16 Thread Igor PDML-StR
... in translation from French to Russian. 19th century Russian aristocracy was speaking French! (E.g. a large portion of World and Peace by L. Tolstoy is written in French [even when published in Russian, -- with pages and pages of footnotes with the translation to Russian]) Cheers, Igor

Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-16 Thread Stanley Halpin
> On Aug 16, 2017, at 2:19 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > > It's the holiday period. My guess is that the people who read all the emails > to see whether or not they're junk are sitting in deck chairs on a beach > somewhere, reading 19th-century Russian novels in translation.

Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-16 Thread Bob W-PDML
It's the holiday period. My guess is that the people who read all the emails to see whether or not they're junk are sitting in deck chairs on a beach somewhere, reading 19th-century Russian novels in translation. > On 16 Aug 2017, at 18:49, Jostein wrote: > > More likely

Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-16 Thread Jostein
More likely it's traffic diversion. The benign interpretation is that internet service providers are being overzealous. :-( Happens here too. Jostein Den 16.08.2017 11:06, skrev Alan C: Most PDML e-mails haven't been coming through & I have to access them through the archives instead . Now

Re: OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-16 Thread Rick Womer
That may be contributing to the extremely low level of activity. Rick On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Alan C wrote: > Most PDML e-mails haven't been coming through & I have to access them > through the archives instead . Now they are belatedly coming through in >

OT: Weird e-mail behavior

2017-08-16 Thread Alan C
Most PDML e-mails haven't been coming through & I have to access them through the archives instead . Now they are belatedly coming through in dribs-and-drabs. Perhaps there is a leak in the Atlantic undersea cable? Alan C --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus