Another good reason not to have AOL.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Szalay" <john.szalay@att.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: List ?
> At 04:07 PM 1/25/04 -0700, you wrote:
> Haven't heard anything on the list for about 2 weeks.... Did I
> get kicked off the island or is everybody being REAL quiet???
> Ed
>
>
> One possiblity:
>
> Has your ISP installed OR updated their SPAM prevention software lately?
>
> In the past that has been the cause of many mailing lists loss of
messages.
>
> EXAMPLES:
> AOL has some very broad guidelines of what makes a message OR
> mailing list fall into the SPAM category. and the GMC motorhome mailing
list
> got caught in their "Filter" and blocked all messages to AOL users from
that
> list.
> AOL ALSO blocked the Email from a major University to new students that
> had been accepted to the school. since there was a large packet of
> email from the University's computers, the AOL SPAMbots decided that it
> was SPAM and put the schools servers on the blocked list and it took
> a news story on the subject to get AOL to admit they were wrong and remove
> the school from the blocked Email category.
>
> Since there has been a major increase in SPAM in the past few months,
> a lot of ISPs are upgrading the SPAM blocking.
>
> keep track of the number of messages from the LSR list and give us a
count
> for a couple of days, we can compare totals from various members and see
> if SPAM blocking is the case..
>
> FWIW: I have used this same email address for about 6 years, so the
address
> grabbers have it again & again, and receive SPAM/real email on a ratio
> daily of about 50 to 5. ( IF I turn my two levels of filters off..)
> still get some getting thru the filters but the ratio is
> more like 5 to 1 now...
>
> John
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