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
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