Re: about addresses and spam block

The thing you have to remember is that computers are really, really stupid.
AOL got it into its head one day that I was a spammer or something and
started rejecting emails to my daughters and best friend who were AOL
clients, after I had been corresponding with them at those addresses for
years. (I hadn't changed my address or anything--it just happened.) I wish I
could remember who had to tell who what to get them to stop being stupid (I
think I had to get an administrator from my service provider) but it took a
couple of hours, and all was back to normal.

Georgia

"Christina Peterson" <tinapetrsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42e5ac72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> OK. Now the ISP is the middle part, right? Like yours is bellsouth? As
I
> mentioned to Georgia, it's hard to imagine the major carrier in Alaska
> getting marked as spam. And at the same time, Alaska's small population
> should show up that heavily on the spam radar either.
>
> I had just sent a message to Sarajane from her website. And that may have
> more protection just because of the public nature of websites. And no,
I'm
> quite sure I wasn't rejected by her, nor did I give up. I just switched
to
> my Yahoo address. The one commonly known to the public (newsgroups, etc).
>
> I'm just curious about the general subject.
>
> Tina
>
>
> "Comcast" <e_lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:GdGdnWXTa7L4FXjfRVn-oQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > This had nothng to do with your email address. It had to do with your
ISP
> > getting on a list of suspected spam domains.
> >
> > Spamcop is one of several services with compiles lists of suspect IP
> > addresses that a postmaster can use to filter out suspected spam. To
> quote
> > from the spamcop website, spamcop "is aggressive and often errs on the
> side
> > of blocking mail."
> >
> > For some reason, your ISP's IP address, 209.112.173.225, was on
spamcop's
> > blacklist when your email got rejected. It's no longer on their black
> list,
> > which implies that it was a false positive, your ISP complained, and
> spamcop
> > took it off the blacklist..
> >
> > I would never reject email based on spamcop alone.
> >
> > Elise
> > (who spends half her work life fine-tuning spam filters)
> >
> >
> > "Christina Peterson" <tinapetrsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:42e55cd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > My mail gets rejected. Today an e-mail to Sarajane was returned by
> > spamcop
> > > "(reason: 553 Blocked - see
> > > http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?209.112.173.225)"
> > >
> > > I am guessing this new address was rejected because the "pc",
especially
> > as
> > > the first 2 letters, sounds like advertising for software. (My other
> > > address went through). And I'm wondering if it's common to block for
> > that.
> > >
> > > For different reasons, my daughter-in-laws mail often gets blocked.
Her
> > > email is her patronymic, Haborivna (literally the daughter of
> > Habor/Gavor).
> > > Sometimes more than spam gets blocked.
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > >
> > > "Barbara Forbes-Lyons" <penguintrax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:42e545d7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Tina,
> > > >
> > > > Is your outgoing mail bouncing back to you or are you having
problems
> > > > recieving mail? Can you tell us (me) what errors you are getting?
That
> > > > would help us fix the problem.
> > > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > Barbara
> > > > www.penguintrax.com
> > > >
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> > > >
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>


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