Re: spam

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

Chris -- I can't tell you how helpful this has been. All of a sudden 
several weeks ago, all of my GWL and gwl-g mail went into my bulk 
folder. I even  e-mail the yahoos at Yahoo/SBC about what I could do 
to make it stop. No response.

However, with your instruction, I was able to find the filter section 
of my server, tell it to put GWL  and gwl-g mail in my inbox. I also 
added two names that come to me as spam all the time to go to the 
trash folder.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

jems

>  > This is almost funny. Well, Andrew will think it's funny. *Your* email was
>>  in the spam folder. I only learned of its existence because Andrew's
>>  response was in my Inbox, so I went looking for what he was responding to.
>>  Both messages were labeled GWL in the subject line. I don't have any spam
>>  filters set up myself on this email account. What goes into the Spam folder
>>  is decided by Google. The fact that some of the GWL messages wind up in
>>  spam, and others do not, suggests to me that some other criteria is being
>>  used.
>
>There's all kinds of different criteria, and as you pointed out, each
>message is treated differently. 
>
>In Andrew's case, his messages are given a higher chance of being spam
>because the From: header in his emails only has an email address with
>no name, i.e.
>
>    From: Hamptongar@aol.com
>   
>Sally Williams had the same problem, but she also scored even higher
>because one of the headers that her mail software added wasn't
>standards compliant and couldn't be parsed:
>
>    Received: from 204.179.122.250 by MBLK-M14.sysops.aol.com (64.12.136.47)
>       with HTTP (WebMailUI); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:09:42 -0500
>
>Margaret Lauterbach has a problem where her machine claims to be
>margaret.earthlink.net when sending messages, but since that's not
>a valid machine name on the Internet, it raises a flag too:
>
>    Received: from [71.32.183.48] (helo=Margaret.earthlink.net)
>         by elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34)
>         id 1HHMFN-0004Cp-HG
>         for gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:40:41 -0500
>
>Gene Bush had an email on Feb 8 that raised a red flag because it was
>received 3-6 hours after the date on which it was sent, which is sometimes
>a technique used by spammers (it looks like he just composed a message at
>6am, but didn't upload it to his ISP until 9am).
>
>And the list goes on and on...  :)
>
>So each message is treated uniquely and differently, and some are flagged
>as possible spam for valid reasons while others seem more whimsical
>(like Gene's timing issue).
>
>The answer, if your email provider supports it, is to whitelist the GWL
>mailing list.  Tell your system to allow anything from
>
>    gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>
>regardless of its spam status and you should be good to go!
>
>Chris
>
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-- 
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, author, photographer
Region III Director Garden Writers Association
Phone: (317) 251.3261
Fax: (317) 251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net

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