Re: Re: [IBC] {SPAM} Re: [IBC] Email as attachments

Savanna

Evergreen Gardenworks wrote:
> *At 09:30 PM 2/12/04 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Brent (and all users who's ISP uses Postini as an email filter)
> >
> >Pacific Net uses a spam filtering system that thinks our bonsai
> messages are
> >some form of "Junk Mail" that's being generated by a spam broadcast
> >generator.
> >I've just visited the Pacific.net site and it appears they're using
> the
> >commercial spam filtering company called "Postini" which will
> filter
> >messages that it considers to be a virus, and those email it
> considers to be
> >"junk mail" unless you tell it to allow these messages to pass
> through it's
> >filters.
>
> Mark
>
> I just went to Postini and checked my settings and addresses. As I
> thought,
> the bonsai listserv address is an approved sender. The weird messages
> I get
> are not quarantined. They are sent on to me, but they have the Spam
> warning
> appended, with whatever the message there was, added as an
> attachment. I
> don't think changing any of my settings is going to make a
> difference, but
> I just contacted the ISP to see if there is anything I can do about
> it.
> They are much more responsive than Postini folks.
>
> This has happened periodically in the past, but has not been a big
> problem.
> Once customer sent me a message that came in this form. I replied
> that I
> couldn't read it and asked him to send only plain text messages,
> which he
> did, and it came through just fine. He was using some sort of MS
> Outlook
> and commented that he had some sort instant email thingy and thought
> maybe
> that was the problem. I wouldn't touch Outlook with a ten foot pole,
> so I
> have no idea what he was talking about, but when he switched to a
> good old
> plain text message, he got through. This is the message that Jim
> Lewis is
> saying as well, and I think it is the best solution to the problem.
>
> Folks: The geegaws, dancing gifs, colored text, and whatever woozles
> your
> system gives you to play with, don't make your thoughts or words one
> bit
> (no pun intented) more intelligent. It just keeps you from
> communicating to
> some us, which was the whole idea in the first place.
>
> Yes, I too, was one of the guys who thought Beta was a superior
> system and
> went that route instead of VHS. I still use an old IBM with Win95,
> Quickbooks 99, Wordperfect 8 (6 worked better) and a six year old
> HotDog
> html editor. I run my whole business with this, and it works just
> fine. I
> turn it on, I sit down. I go to work, end of story. Susie, on the
> other
> hand, who just got a shiny new XP machine spends twice as much time
> just
> trying to get it to work than she does in productivity. And just as
> soon as
> she has figured out the latest manifestation of her edu's website
> where she
> posts here online schoolwork, they think up some cool new changes.
> Of
> course they don't work, or are buggy, and she has to go through a
> whole new
> round of brain damage.
>
> I think we need to get our priorities straight.
>
>
> Brent in Northern California
> Evergreen Gardenworks USDA Zone 8 Sunset Zone 14
> mailto:bonsai@pacific.net
> http://www.EvergreenGardenworks.com
>
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