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From: "Jim Parsons" <>
Subject: Re: [DOR] LIST ADMIN - Spam Bars
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:41:20 +0100
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020604193025.02163440@pop.freeserve.net>


Spam Filters are fine for businesses.

The rest of us should be able to manage with the delete key.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Jones" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: [DOR] LIST ADMIN - Spam Bars


> OK - I will unsub anyone immediately whose mail starts bouncing because
> they have fitted a spam bar or spam filter because I am fed up with my
mail
> box filling up with all these spam filter bounces. It makes it very hard
to
> keep track of any genuine problems. I have posted about these twice before
> but the bounces still keep on coming.
> If you fit a spam filter you must check that you are still able to receive
> mail from mailing lists. If not, I am afraid you will have to unsub and no
> longer get mail from the Dorset list. Some spam bars do allow you to
> programme in certain addresses into an accept list. If yours allows you to
> do this, then please ensure you have the Dorset list or digest address in
> this. Remember that if your programme works this way, and you post a
> message to the list (having made it an acceptable address!), the replies
> you receive are not likely to reach you as they will probably come from
> addresses not on your accept list! I then get queries from the people who
> are trying to help you because they wonder why their efforts to help are
> being bounced as spam.
> Think carefully before fitting one of these filters - they sound like a
> good idea but they seem to cause more problems than the spam did in the
> first place.
> Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset
>
> Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset
> Listowner - Dorset List and Dorset Life List
> For Dorset Look Ups see:
> www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk/dorset/lookups.htm
> I use Archive CD Books to help with my research
> http://www.archivecdbooks.org
>
>
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