Re: OT: Emailing Quentin

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:12:26 +0000, Trinkwasser
<spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:06:10 +1300, Quentin Grady
<quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:04:40 +1300, Quentin Grady
<quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

G'day G'day Folks,

It has come to my attention that at least one person has had
difficulty reaching me today and most disappointingly has naturally
not received a reply.

Thank you to those people who emailed me while I was asleep.
The local Internet service provider is up and running now.

There is much to be learnt from what has happened here.

One concerns assumptions. We all make assumptions even when we guard
against making them. Everyone here has seen the injunction about the
ASS in assumptions. Never the less we make them because we are
unaware we are making them. For instance, I assumed Rod was referring
to emails he had sent yesterday. He wasn't. He was referring to
emails he had sent in the past particularly to some emails he'd sent
helping me with the neuropathy problems. For some reason my email
client regarded them as spam. Perhaps I mistakenly clicked on his
first email tagging it as spam on a day when I had a heap of spam. We
will never know how it happened, just that it happened.

Fortunately he emailed me again and this time I discoed his email in
the folder set aside for Spam. Why on Earth Incredimail would now
regard his emails as spam I've not the slightest idea. Never the less
this appears to be what happened to his previous posts. I've now
corrected the situation so his future emails wont be treated in the
same fashion.

Incredimail is notorious for the amount of garbage each email carries.
Software writers assure me the best thing to do is ditch it.

It is so bad that some software regards all Incredimail emails as
spam. Comcast certainly does. I've tried explaining the situation to
them but they insist a large volume of spam originated from my
address. So, sorry to the person who set out to help me by emailing
from Comcast overnight. I replied thanking them. Comcast sent me a
message saying my reply had been BLOCKED because it was SPAM. Perhaps
if the sender emails Comcast they might do better than I did in
convincing them I'm not sending spam, just using Incredimail.

Sadly this sort of thing is not uncommon nowadays, some spam filters
particularly at the larger commercial-type ISPs are set very fierce.

Here we have our *own* specific domains and a fixed IP number. Most of
this ISP's customers are technically aware folks, but occasionally it
will happen that someone gets virused and may end up inadvertently
sending or relaying spam until the offending software is fixed.
(Genuine spammers do NOT keep their accounts)

However when this happens some other ISPs will not just block that
specific IP number but *all* IPs in the block and many other innocent
customers also find their genuine emails being bounced.

There have been cases when some US ISPs have blocked entire
*countries* from sending email to their customers.

It was someone like Comcast who has blocked the entire UK in the
recent past.

G'day G'day,

Thank you for the explanation. I hadn't considered the block of IPs
being blocked for spam and my being unfortunate to be included in that
group of IPs.

There doesn't seem to be anything practical that I can do about it,
though perhaps my intended recipients might on my behalf.

Best wishes,
--
Quentin Grady ^ ^ /
New Zealand, >#,#< [
/ \ /\
"... and the blind dog was leading."

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin
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