Eric on 10 Aug 2008 13:28:42 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] PLUG messages as false spam


I run my email through gmail for the same reason and as I've seen no 
PLUG email gets tagged as spam... well maybe one in the last year.

Eric

Art Alexion wrote:
> With this verizon account, my mail used to be handled by yahoo and their
> flawed spam filters.
>
> When I learned that I could run the mail through gmail and take advantage of
> their spam filter and imap, I moved my old alexion.com account.  alexion.com
> is a high spam account.  As everything was working really well, with very
> little spam getting through, and almost no noticeable false poshitives, I
> moved verizon.net there as well, turning off yahoo's spam filter to avoid the
> rampant false positives that filter produces.
>
> Surprisingly, many (35%?) of PLUG messages get caught anyway.  PLUG and
> another, non-technical list.  Nothing seems amiss in the threads that get
> caught.  The most recent message to get interceted was John Lavin's recent
> post regarding Tivo and MythTV.
>
> Anybody else with a gmail account have this message trapped as well? noticing
> the same problem? Any ideas what is triggering this?
>    

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