[meteorite-list] -- SPAM -- Member Having Problems Posting

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:35:27 -0400
Message-ID: <BAY141-W31F28D571A6ED452DD5055F8250_at_phx.gbl>

Hi John and All,

You wrote:
>>the problem is caused by servers installing software to automate more processes that presort mail looking for SPAM or junk mail."

That is easy enough to fix, too.
Check your Junk Mail, and anything there that shouldn't be can be highlighted and marked: NOT JUNK (or similar).
That would keep List mail out of there in the future.

Cheers,
Pete




> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:16:08 -0700
> To: John at Cabassi.net; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> From: jkg2 at cox.net
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] -- SPAM -- Member Having Problems Posting
>
> If you check back in the List Archives, you will find that there have
> been several people who have problems sending and/or receiving mail
> to/from the Met List.
> Several weeks ago, I noticed that mail from the List was getting
> sporadic. Sometimes, I wouldn't receive mail for two or three days
> only to have it all show up several days later. Many emails that I
> posted to the List showed up in the Archives but I never received a
> copy in my Inbox. Bob Holmes and I found that we both had the same
> issues. After comparing notes, we discovered that the latest episode
> of no mail received happened to both of us on the same day at the
> same hour. Since we've been friends for many years, we knew that we
> were both customers of the server giant COX.net. Both of us made
> several phone calls to our server but got no results. Bob signed up
> with an email account supplied by a friends website and I signed up a
> gmail account as suggested by Art. We both now receive Met List
> posting regularly and on time. My old COX account will now
> sporadically send me mail for the list, but it is all marked spam.
>
> The only conclusion we could come to was that the problem originated
> with COX and not with Art's server. I know in the past that many of
> you who were with Comcast and Aol has the same frustrating
> problems. I my humble opinion, the problem is caused by servers
> installing software to automate more processes that presort mail
> looking for SPAM or junk mail.
>
> Good luck fixing your problem. My faith in our "high tech" world is
> fading rapidly.
>
> Best,
>
> John Gwilliam
>
> At 07:38 PM 10/25/2008, John.L.Cabassi wrote:
>>G'Day List
>>It has been brought to my attention that Greg Catterton has been
>>having problems posting to the met list. He seems to receive email,
>>but cannot post. So, I am acting on his behalf to try and resolve the problem.
>>
>>I would really appreciate some help on this issue or at least
>>someone to contact in regards to the problem.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>John L. Cabassi
>>IMCA #2125
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> John Gwilliam
>
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> and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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