>Ahhh, but what about us poor schlubs who use the digest? I got it via the >digest, not any individual mailing. My RBL would have passed this right >along since it DID come from an approved source. Guess you just got >lucky, Chris!
I still don't understand why I didn't get it. If it made it to the digest, that means it had to be processed by the list. Unless the list server is doing some kind of spam filtering (quite possible), then everyone on the list should have gotten it. The exception being those that run spam filters of their own (which, really they still got it, only their filters caught it and kept it away from them). It looks like some non digest people got it (and it ended up in spam folders from their ISPs). Which makes me really wonder why I didn't get it. I don't do server side spam filtering that will stop something like this one. My only filtering is done at the server to server connection level. When a new email comes in, the sending server is checked against a set of blacklists to see if it is a known spam server. Eskimo.com would get past that (if it couldn't I wouldn't get any of the list emails). After that check is done, if any of the recipients on the email being sent are marked as spam trap addresses, then the entire email is rejected and the sending server is banned for a period of time. I only have two spam trap addresses, neither of them would have been in the email in question. So basically, I run nothing that should have stopped this email from getting to me. And once it made it to me, it should have wound up in my Emailer-Talk folder due to my mail actions. UNLESS... it just dawned on me, I might have actually collected this email from my home computer. There I don't have the mail actions that pull list mail into its own folder. That means the email would have ended up in my inbox... and I might have junked it based on the subject without ever paying attention to it. I do get more spam at home that needs to be manually tossed because of my home ISP. So I might have not paid enough attention and thought it was spam from that account (which is all that account gets thanks to the strange way Verizon handles the account). Humm... I am going to go nuts thinking about this until I get home and can root thru my deleted mail to see if I got this spam. Arrgh!!! I'm going to obsess over this all day now!!! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
