Use of the word "unsubscribe" - the inclusion of an email address in the body of a message and other such things that we accept in use on the list will get a reasonably high "spam" score from things like SPAMASSASSIN.
I have the same problem with emails I send to an e-zine list (participants have to re opt-in every three months!) seems that SPAMANOIA has taken over and much legitimate, even requested, email is being filtered out. John At 07:11 AM 12/20/2002 -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:18:39 -0800 Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I sent an email explaining how to unsubscribe to someone. >> >> Subject: How to Unsubscribe - again :-( was Re: Using DBI::Proxy ... >> Cc: DBI Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Bharat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The rediffmail.com mail service rejected my message: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT >> TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> host mail2.rediffmail.com [203.199.83.4]: 553 sorry, your envelope >> sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) >> >> I think that means either Earthlink/Mindspring is on a blacklist or I >> am or he is, and probably bgbadhe isn't going to see this followup, >> either - though maybe... > >I got the same response when I tried to respond to another unsubscribe >request from Bharat. I followed up through another email provider, so >hopefully the new message will get through. > >Considering how unclueful Bharat's provider seems to be, Baharat may have >been trying to get help with this for millenia and is never seeing the >responses because they get bounced by rediffmail.com. > >> And the message is not acceptable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] either: >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> BOUNCED: Unsubscribe in subject. Send Unsubscribe requests to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for >> help >> >> Well, I'm not about to push the envelope to see whether un-subscribe or >> u-n-s-u-s-c-r-i-b-e (or subscribe) are trapped too, but there are some >> words that simply cannot be used in messages to the dbi-users mailing >> list, it seems. > >Unsubscribe in the subject triggers the rejection message you got in order >to minimize the number of 'unsubscribe me' messages we see on the list. >Before that was done we seemed to be getting such messages about hourly; >now we normally go about a month between the ones I notice. > >-- >Mac :}) >** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** >Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. >Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.
