[SEL] [AT] forum

[Spencer Yost]

If you look through the archives, you find it added to various posts 
from time to time.   The way most spam filters work is they assign a 
total  "spam  score" to an email based on hundreds of different 
criteria; each of which add "spam points".   Some criteria are as simple 
as:  Did the email use the work "Free" too many times.    Others are 
complicated heuristic algorithms.  Some are look ups in lists of ISPs 
and sender addresses that have a history of SPAM.   After the scan the 
total score is compared to a threshold.   Above the threshold, the mail 
is rejected.  If an email is just slightly below the score, then they 
might get the warning tag in the subject like you got.  If you will 
notice, this latest email you sent did not have the "Spam" tag.

The short answer is:  No, there is not anything I can really do about it 
short of changing Spam filtering services - but I am sure I would just 
jump from the frying pan to the fire if I did.  They all operate very 
similarly.    As it should not happen very often and because most folks 
know the tag is a warning only and usually the result of inconsequential 
use of certain words, or a temporary misconfiguration of your ISPs 
server; most folks know that does not represent on on-going threat from 
your PC or ISP or email account.


Hope this helps,

Spencer



On 1/22/2011 1:04 PM, John Wilkens wrote:
> Spencer, If the "spam" msg is attached to my emails I'm afraid the
> ATIS guys might delete all my messages.  :(   Is this just a temp.
> situation?   John W
>
>
>
> At 05:45 PM 01/21/2011, you wrote:
>> A few years ago I stopped handling my own email spam detection
>> software.   Too much mail and it was consuming too many
>> resources.  So I hired Trend Micro to scan my servers' incoming
>> email first for viruses, spam, etc.   Only then, after each piece of
>> mail passes, will it send the mail to my server for processing.
>>
>> If Trend Micro only suspects it is spam, but can't rank it high
>> enough to actually reject it, it will add the "spam" tag to the
>> subject line to alert the final recipients.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 18:48, John Wilkens<jwilkens at eoni.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Don't know about that, but the last message I sent added a "Spam"
>>> note to my email.   :(   Anyone know what that is about?   John W.
>>>
>>>
>>> At 02:50 PM 01/21/2011, you wrote:
>>>> I get the forbidden error also and the FAQ pages are down too.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Gene Dotson
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:46 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] forum
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Same here John. Says I am Forbidden.
>>>>
>>>>                     Gene
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "john hall"<jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:17 PM
>>>> Subject: [AT] forum
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Anybody able to get the forum to come up? I've been getting errors the
>>>>> last 2 days.
>>>>>
>>>>> John Hall
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