[Rwp] An administrative note about the list

[Jayson Smith]

Hi all,

As you've doubtless noticed, the past two days have seen a huge flood of 
list messages. Unfortunately, not everybody has received every message. 
For privacy reasons I won't divulge specific Email addresses here, but 
there are a few spam filtering solutions which have been rejecting 
certain messages from this list because their content scanners believe 
they contain spam.

Let me state right here and now that I am NOT! accusing anybody on this 
list of sending any spam messages. It's just that what you think is spam 
and what I think is spam doesn't always jive with what various spam 
filters think is spam, and there's really not a lot we, as posters or 
administrators, can do about it.

The upshot of this message is this. I have the list software set to 
disable subscriptions when people bounce at least one message per day 
for at least three days within a rolling seven-day period. If some 
addresses bounce mail today, this will be their third day with at least 
one bounced message. If this happens, you'll receive a message saying 
your subscription has been disabled because of too many bounced 
messages, and providing a link to re-enable your subscription. If I see 
this happen, I'll manually re-enable any subscriptions that weren't 
previously re-enabled.

Like I said, there's not much any of us can do about this. I've seen 
some providers who use spam filtering over which their users have 
absolutely no control. I've also seen providers who give their users 
control, but then the mail goes through a filter before it gets to the 
system which would filter or not filter based on user preference, 
meaning that the users' preferences don't really do that much good.

I hope this message helps, and I'm sorry for having to write this type 
of message.

Thank you for your understanding,

Jayson Smith