[BC] Administrivia: one problem begets another

[Mike McCarthy]

Just one more reason I stay as far as I possibly can from AOL and it's 
insidious software.

MM

At 01:24 PM 2/5/2006 -0700, Barry Mishkind wrote
>Unfortunately, as some of you know, we are seeing more issues lately with 
>spam and blackhole lists, and several domains, including hotmail are 
>currently difficult.
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>On top of this, it appears that mailman has been "rejecting" some posts 
>with the {Spam} in the Subject line, but instead of the "Your message had 
>a suspicious header" ... it seems to be sending "no reason given"
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>At this moment, the cause for this is unknown.
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>The problem is that so many filters get their knickers in a twist over the 
>very word Spam, that we risk having radiolists.net stuck on a list if we 
>don't try to prevent it as often as possible.
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>Since it takes about an hour or so a day to go deal with the BC list (not 
>to mention others), sometimes it takes a while to resolve.  In the past, I 
>have tried to edit out the word {Spam} and push the post through.  Some 
>days I don't have time to deal with them all.  Hence the attempt to send 
>them back so the sender would know that there either an error at their end 
>or an ISP problem.
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>Unfortunately, a few have decided to take offence. On the other hand, some 
>do understand, and have asked what is going on.
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>Email is a hassle, folks. Talk to your IT people.  Spam is the *vast 
>majority* of traffic on the net these days ... as much as 90% or 
>more.  AOL by the way, is planning to charge incoming commerical email to 
>bypass their spam filters... They think they will make millions.
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>It is all a mess.
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>Thanks for those of you who understand and help.
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>Barry Mishkind     -       Tucson, AZ    -   520-296-3797
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