At 10:33 AM 10/29/06 -0500, Martin Banner wrote: >I have found sometimes that I am unable to receive emails from various >people/libraries in Europe. I have found this to be especially true >with Italy, although I am not sure why this is a problem. I would hate >to be paranoid and say that, because of security measures put in place >after 9/11 in this country, various emails sent from overseas are >looked at by authorities in the US. I must say that prior to 9/11, I >never had any problems receiving emails from anyone or anywhere outside >the US.
Though I'm always eager to join a conspiracy theory, this time it might just be the consequence of your ISP's spam filters. For example, my mail server automatically discards about 25,000 pieces of spam a day. About 150 get through. My filtering is only moderate because I need emails from IP blocks that some ISPs block entirely because these blocks serve out so much spam. Many spam servers are in China, Korea, Russia, and eastern Europe. Various IP blocks are listed in Spamcop, Spamhaus, etc., and if they're on the list and your ISP subscribes to the list, then email from addresses in those blocks won't get through either. If you have access to mail server whose filtering you can control, you might set up an unpublished and unfiltered email address that you use just for those circumstances. If you don't have access to a mail server, Gmail has strong filters, but I think they learn from the spam you get. You might try a Gmail address, and just never publish it anywhere. Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ My blog: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html Composer "buy local" bumpersticker: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/bumpersticker.jpg http://www.cafepress.com/buy/80570307/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
