Re: techie question - OT

Sorry for replying to myself - this was supposed to be part of Karen's thread, but at my place it is showing up as a separate thread.

Don't know how that happened - sorry!

Hanne in London

Hanne Gottliebsen wrote:
Queen of Squishies wrote:
When I use "block sender" what actually happens out there in cyberspace? Do
the emails go through my server and get dumped somewhere before they reach
my inbox? Do they get bounced back to the original server? Or do they just
get bounced to some kind of cyber dead-letter office? How does this
actually work? Okay, back to sewing, which I sometimes DO understand.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

I am not sure, but I think this would depend on your email/news reader and your provider.

Here at my college, stuff that looks like really bad spam gets deleted by the server. If it only looks a little suspect, it gets bounced back to the sender with instructions on how to change things (usually sender's isp is not following internet standards). Then we have some further checks for those emails that make it through these hurdles: those emails get sorted to either inbox, possibly-spam or probably-spam - all of which I as the recipient have control over.

If you are talking about the news group, then it is different: that is just handled by your reader not showing posts from that sender. But then again, news are not sent to your inbox as such, regardless of how you read them :-)

Just my 2p.

Hanne in London
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