[LMB] List Love

[Katrina Knight]

At 01:01 PM 3/8/2008 Mark Mandel wrote:
>And this email came to me flagged as spam as well, possibly 
>because of lots of quoting. I will insert some assorted text at 
>bottom to fix proportion of quoting.

Lots of quoting is not normally a reason for a message to be 
treated as spam.

>On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Paula Lieberman <paal at gis.net> 
>wrote:
>>  Something about your emails causes the spam checker on the 
>> ISP I use to put [SPAM?] at the top of almost anything you 
>> post to the list that comes to me!
>>
>>Here's a copy of what the spamchecker notices in the ""Message 
>>source" view:

> > X-Spam-Report:
> >  * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record
> >  *  1.8 RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM RBL: SORBS: sender is a spam 
> source
> >  *      [65.55.175.211 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net]
> >  *  2.8 REPTO_QUOTE_MSN MSN doesn't do quoting like this

This is information concerning how SpamAssassin ranked the 
message. The second part says that the message came from a known 
source of spam - that is, the IP address in the oldest received 
header is black-listed at nsbl.sorbs.net. The third part is 
complaining that the message comes from an MSN address but MSN 
uses a different style of quoting, so it is assuming that the 
message wasn't sent using MSN which makes it likely that the 
header showing where it came from was forged.

>>  From: "Pat Mathews" <mathews55 at msn.com>
>>>Pat, frustrated with Qwestmail but having had enough trouble 
>>>with switching and/or being switched between that and hotmail 
>>>and msn, none of which was my doing.

Pat, why not get yourself a better e-mail account somewhere 
else? I've heard nothing good about what Qwest is providing now. 
Gmail and fastmail.fm accounts generally work well.  Gmail 
accounts are free and you can choose between using gmail's web 
interface or using any normal e-mail client that you like. 
Fastmail.fm's free accounts work either via their web interface 
or via an IMAP client. (You have to pay to be able to use their 
SMTP or POP servers though, but the charge isn't all that much.) 


-- 
Katrina Knight
kknight at fastmail.fm