At 08:41 AM 11/6/05 -0000, Jean Nathan wrote: >DH received an email from someone who picked up his details from a e-pal >site. He replied and, in return, got a message requesting him to fill in a >form to be on this person's approved list so his emails got through the >'Earthlink Spam Filter'. Neither of has had this happen before, and, as >we're ultra-cautious about doing anything which might generate more spam to >us, wondered if anyone has knowledge of this.
Earthlink does offer whitelisting, but if your DH responded from the same address that the message was sent to, the e-pal should have already put him on the whitelist when he sent the message. And all that's required for the whitelist --- I *think*, I don't use whitelisting myself, so I haven't read that part of the site -- and can't, now that Earthlink has "improved" its pages to be unresponsive to people not using the very latest operating system, (my e-mail address is apt to change Real Soon Now) --- all that's required for the whitelist is the e-mail address, which the e-pal already has. And there's a back-up system which (if you are using the very latest and buggiest operating system *and* the worst browser) will allow you to look through the blocked mail for stuff that you should have whitelisted and didn't. So either this is bait or the e-pal doesn't want to correspond very much. Or maybe he can't get through to the Help pages either. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
