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[John Wilkens]

Thanks.....that's good news!



At 11:20 AM 01/22/2011, you wrote:
>If you look through the archives, you find it added to various posts
>from time to time.   The way most spam filters work is they assign a
>total  "spam  score" to an email based on hundreds of different
>criteria; each of which add "spam points".   Some criteria are as simple
>as:  Did the email use the work "Free" too many times.    Others are
>complicated heuristic algorithms.  Some are look ups in lists of ISPs
>and sender addresses that have a history of SPAM.   After the scan the
>total score is compared to a threshold.   Above the threshold, the mail
>is rejected.  If an email is just slightly below the score, then they
>might get the warning tag in the subject like you got.  If you will
>notice, this latest email you sent did not have the "Spam" tag.
>
>The short answer is:  No, there is not anything I can really do about it
>short of changing Spam filtering services - but I am sure I would just
>jump from the frying pan to the fire if I did.  They all operate very
>similarly.    As it should not happen very often and because most folks
>know the tag is a warning only and usually the result of inconsequential
>use of certain words, or a temporary misconfiguration of your ISPs
>server; most folks know that does not represent on on-going threat from
>your PC or ISP or email account.
>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Spencer
>
>
>
>On 1/22/2011 1:04 PM, John Wilkens wrote:
> > Spencer, If the "spam" msg is attached to my emails I'm afraid the
> > ATIS guys might delete all my messages.  :(   Is this just a temp.
> > situation?   John W
> >
> >
> >
> > At 05:45 PM 01/21/2011, you wrote:
> >> A few years ago I stopped handling my own email spam detection
> >> software.   Too much mail and it was consuming too many
> >> resources.  So I hired Trend Micro to scan my servers' incoming
> >> email first for viruses, spam, etc.   Only then, after each piece of
> >> mail passes, will it send the mail to my server for processing.
> >>
> >> If Trend Micro only suspects it is spam, but can't rank it high
> >> enough to actually reject it, it will add the "spam" tag to the
> >> subject line to alert the final recipients.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >> Spencer
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Jan 21, 2011, at 18:48, John Wilkens<jwilkens at eoni.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Don't know about that, but the last message I sent added a "Spam"
> >>> note to my email.   :(   Anyone know what that is about?   John W.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> At 02:50 PM 01/21/2011, you wrote:
> >>>> I get the forbidden error also and the FAQ pages are down too.
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: Gene Dotson
> >>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> >>>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:46 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [AT] forum
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     Same here John. Says I am Forbidden.
> >>>>
> >>>>                     Gene
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "john hall"<jtchall at nc.rr.com>
> >>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> >> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >>>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:17 PM
> >>>> Subject: [AT] forum
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Anybody able to get the forum to come up? I've been getting errors the
> >>>>> last 2 days.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> John Hall
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