In <4d359646.3000...@trainersfriend.com>, on 01/18/2011 at 06:31 AM, Steve Comstock <st...@trainersfriend.com> said:
>On the other hand, some email providers are over-ambitious in their >blocking. I wish I had one like that ;-) >I'm leading a tour to Japan this fall and when I send emails to >the group there is a high probability those with an email address >of @comcast.net will reject the email. Verio has spam issues; I don't see blocking NTT as being overambitious. You should be able to send from a different network. >I wonder how many valid emails are not getting through because >of false-positive results in some spam sensing algorithm. Not as many as are lost because they're buried in spam. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html