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)

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