At 01:59 PM 1/28/2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >"Marc R. Feldesman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At the risk of being flamed for mortal stupidity, I'm trying to figure >> out what could have possibly changed (at my end almost certainly) that >> make Brian Ripley's posts (in particular) not show up on my mail >> server (at least not on the one where I receive my email). > >Did you remember to turn off the Oxford-sarcasm filter? ;-) > > -p
that was the first one I turned off :-)
Really, I have NO filters whatsoever on the primary email server, which is why it lets through everything including Brian's emails to r-help. What seems to be happening is that when emails get forwarded on to my "real" email systems (not the University's system but my private home network and my private office network), they simply vanish without a trace. I don't use procmail, forward or spam assassin on any of these network systems and the email clients all have their own built-in filters. If I manually forward Brian's messages from my University's main network they will now arrive at my office network, but not my home network. But automatic forwarding doesn't send any of his messages anywhere. On my home system, the one I'm writing from right now, I use Eudora Pro 6.0.3. It has its own proprietary version of spam filtering (built on spam assassin). Its rules and filters are easily accessible and I've renamed the whole filter file so that NOTHING gets filtered at all. I've even turned off the built in spam filtering so that it will do nothing to process these messages. Still no messages from Brian Ripley.
If I didn't have such high regard for Brian's comments, I wouldn't bother pursuing this as vigorously as I do. After all, I still *can* read his comments if I go to the main mail server, but that really defeats the purpose of the forwarding system setup.
So I persist in trying to sort this all out. I have talked in greater detail with our Unix team and they are investigating this on several parallel lines. They are checking external filter configurations on their server to make certain that somewhere along the line Brian or Ripley (but not ox.uk) didn't get inadvertently killfiled as Peter (or someone else) suggested.
I'll post back when I get to the root of this. Thanks for all the private and public suggestions. I did really enjoy the "Brian Ripley sarcasm filter". However, as a fan of sarcasm of the British variety, I rather revel in reading Brian's tart comments. They sound an awful lot like some of things I write on student papers.
Cheers and thanks again,
Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 503-725-3905
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