Thursday, October 31, 2002, 3:05:42 PM, Jan wrote in message mid:4036577125.20021031100542@;bogartsdaddy.com
JR> A number of people have written me JR> [different lists] that they are no longer JR> rcvng my posts. In one case, the remote JR> ISP/server returned my post with a msg that JR> they did not accept spam. Jan, This is a very common problem faced by listers & admins in genealogy lists as well - mass mailing from lists is increasingly being filtered out as spam by filters set by various ISP's/domains. The problem is that those filters are being set too widely - and are catching stuff they shouldn't do, and oddly enough sometimes missing the spam! <sigh> JR> Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated. I don't want to JR> have to resort to x-ray or something to mask the mailer but I JR> don't know what some other alternatives might be. My suggestion would be that each time you receive a bounced message from a server write back to the reply address for that ISP/domain (it can usually be found in the expanded headers) and point out that their spam filters are blocking legitimate subscribed mailing list traffic and would they please adjust their spam filters to prevent <listname> List being blocked. We've been doing this quite a lot of late as many domains are putting in new spam filters with poorly thought-out filter strings which are causing problems in many places. As an example - some will filter on capitals and exclamation marks in a subject line, others on numbers in the same, whilst keyword strings such as body or sex can also trigger them. As all of these examples are used by genealogists you can begin to see the problems caused. (Maybe I should clarify the body and sex bit! <bg> An example might be: "Subject: Does anybody know where the birth records of Hampton, Middlesex are?" That subject line *will not* get past some spam filters!!!) Ending here before one of the Mods decides I'm getting OT for TBUDL! <laugh> -- Cheers, Anne Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A Visit The Bat! Users' Unofficial Help Forum http://the-bat-forums.donzeigler.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
