This is mostly a repeat of what I wrote a few weeks ago, but with
some additions.
Recently a few AOL subscribers have had their horn list subscriptions
disabled by excessive bounces, meaning that AOL rejected messages as
spam and returned them to our server undelivered. Our server sent
warning messages about the bounces, but these were also rejected as
spam. This was due to two things: 1) an apparent change AOL made in
their spam filtering rules and 2) the inclusion of our server on a
well known black list because of apparent spoofing of the horn list
address by a virus. Don't worry, the virus can NOT be propagated by
the list; it just means that some subscriber to this list is or was
infected, and the virus is using that member's address book for both
To: and From: addresses. I've taken steps to have our server removed
from the black list; music.memphis.edu is NOT an open relay and all
messages are scanned for spam and viruses before being sent or
delivered.
To insure that you keep receiving horn list posts, please make sure
that [email protected] is in your address book. If you still
find yourself unsubscribed by excessive bounces, you may need to
contact your isp to see what settings you can tweak to ensure that
list posts get through to you. As I mentioned before, the "envelope
sender" of posts is unique to your address and may be something that
the isp will ask about. It can be found in the header of this
message; something like "horn-bounces
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Incidentally, the crazy From:
address that shows up in Microsoft Outlook of that envelope sender
plus "on behalf of" the real sender is a Microsoft idiosyncrasy - a
bug they consider a feature - that violates standard protocols for
header handling.
Another question that has come up a couple of times recently concerns
Gmail subscribers not receiving copies of their own posts to the
list. A "feature" of Gmail is that it checks the Message-ID: header
of each incoming email against its record of outgoing messages from
the same address. If that ID if found, that server assumes you don't
need another copy of a message you sent yourself, so it quietly
deletes it. AFAIK, there's no override, so if you want to be sure
your post was received, I suggest you set the "acknowledge" flag to
yes on your list options page (the address of which is at the bottom
of this message).
On our end, I just added some additional spam filtering to try to cut
down further on the number of bogus messages that Gary has to
moderate, as well as the quantity of spam our real person users (such
as myself) have to wade through. While it's training itself, there
may be some false positives that are rejected. If this happens to
you, please send the message to me personally so I can feed it back
to the server to train it. You can avoid this problem by sending
plain text posts and making sure your address includes a real name as
well as an email address. And don't use a lot of capitals and
exclamation points in the subject, or mention genital enhancement
pills ;-)
The next couple of weeks are traditionally a very slow time for the
list as many people are on vacation, so don't get worried prematurely
about missing posts. If you suspect you're missing something, check
the archives (linked from the listinfo address below) to confirm.
Stay cool,
Dan (already missing the "winter" weather in Cape Town) Phillips
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Dan Phillips
Associate Professor
Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music
University of Memphis
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