Eric on 10 Aug 2008 16:06:13 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] PLUG messages as false spam


Art Alexion wrote:
> On Sunday 10 August 2008 16:28:35 Eric wrote:
>    
>> 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?
>>>        
>
> Was John's message regarding MythTV and Tivo blocked for you?
>    
No, it came right on through.



Eric


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