[Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Dauer, Edward
Before the authorities close this useful but somewhat-OT thread, I would share one anecdote told to me to be true, though I can't personally vouch for it, about an unnamed university twenty-plus years ago. The IT department decided to install filters that would block both incoming and outgoing

Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Walter Underwood
That did used to happen with brute-force algorithms. For the past 15 years or more, spam filtering has been an arms race. Spammers automiatically open a bunch of email accounts on a free provider, then have scripts try different variations until something would get through. Then they hammer the

Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Thread now closed (including related SPAM discussion threads. :-) 73, Eric Mooderator elecraft.com _..._ > On Nov 10, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Dauer, Edward wrote: > > Before the authorities close this useful but somewhat-OT thread, I would > share one ...

Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Rick Robinson
How are you folks during with all the fires ? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:47 PM Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft < e...@elecraft.com> wrote: > Thread now closed (including related SPAM discussion threads. :-) > > 73, > Eric > Mooderator > elecraft.com > _..._ > > > > > On Nov 10, 2018, at 1

Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Hi Rich, No problems. We are many hundreds of miles north and south of the fires here on the Monterey Bay. (About at the middle of the state on the coast.). But we are seeing some smoke getting blown down here in the last day or so. Thanks for the concern! Regards, Eric elecraft.com _..._ >