Hi
As you may notice, I try and keep spam off of the
lute list, and I feel that I have been mostly
successful. I know you people can only see the
spam that gets through the filters, but believe me, there
is a lot of bad mail that doesn't get on to the
lute list!
One of the filters I use is called "spamcop" and it
works by listing computers that it thinks have sent
a lot of spam recently. I use spamcop because if
a lute list member's computer uses spamcop and spam goes
through the lute list, Dartmouth College will be listed
as a spam producing computer, and mail from Dartmouth to
some sites will fail. This is not good.
Many people send spam from one of AOL's many computers,
and so some AOL computers get listed by spamcop. So if you
send messages from AOL there is a possibility that
the AOL server that you use is blacklisted and you won't
be able to send mail to the Lute list. You won't be notified,
your mail will simply not appear on the Lute mail list.
If that happens to you you can try to re send the message
in a day or two when your AOL server is no longer blacklisted,
or you can choose a different service for your email. I am
sorry for the trouble it causes, but my primary duty is to
assure that Dartmouth College does not have mail problems.
Wayne
