I receive my posts as plain text digests thru Gmail & thru my Comcast accounts. Neither has flagged the digests as spam.
YMMV > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:47:44 -0400 > From: Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Incoming CGUYS messages sometimes marked as spam > > > I think we covered this before, but about 1/3 of the CGUYS messages are > > being marked with a Spam prefix in my Inbox. Why is this? tia. > > That depends on what is being used for your spam filtering, but > something, text or something else, is triggering your filter. Is your > spam filter at the server or desktop? If the desktop, you'll either > need to tweak some settings or add the CGUYS to your whitelist. If on > a server, you would need to contact your sysadmin. > > Spam filtering is more art than science. I've lost track of just how > many filters our product, Xwall, uses, but it's designed for a > multi-filter approach, as what one will miss, another will catch. > It's false positive rate is <1%, but it's a balancing act as to how > aggressive to be when filtering spam. Too aggressive and there are > too many false positives, not aggressive enough and too much spam > slips through. > > Comcast started using a filtering service that was terrible and > blocked about a 1/3 of CGUYS messages. There was no notice nor any > way to retrieve the blocked messages. That's a piss-poor and > amateurish way of filtering spam. I moved by CGUYS sub to Gmail and > the problem is solved. I give everyone my gmail address now. I don't > plan on using the Comcast address for anything important. > -- He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. - GK Chesterton ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
