On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:39, Bob Bradlee wrote:
I just got off the phone with SBCglobal and discovered
that they have begun
filtering this list as SPAM/Bulk mail. I use a pop3 mail reader and have
never accessesd their webmail before, so I am sure I never turned any
filtering on. I was supprised to find that AT&T is no longer able to manage
their own mail servers and are relying on the Yahhos at yahoo to do it for
them. After about 30 minutes on the phone with India, I was able to get
cctalk whitelisted for my account, but not whitelisted in general so others
using AT&T Yahoo mail servers will likely still have problems.
We don't care, we don't have to care, we are AT&T, again !
As I crawl back under under my rock ... muttering ...
Bob
I use verizon here. I have been using them for roughly a year or so, now. I
was rather surprised, when going on their web site, to find that they have
spam filtering turned on by default, and that they also have the default of
simply deleting what they consider to be spam messages without any
notification of what's going on or any opportunity to deal with it.
Fortunately, they also provide the option to toss 'em in a folder, where
you can look at them before they're deleted automatically after 30 days.
This is the same behavior of my yahoo and gmail accounts. I get in there
every once in a while and look at what's there. Mostly I delete this stuff,
but every once in a while I find one that's not spam, and there's usually an
option to deal with that appropriately. Hopefully that's better training for
whatever software it is that's making those decisions.
And yet I still get spam here, sometimes, and forward it to
their "notcaught" mailbox, hoping that it'll help. You'd think that
there
being a list of alphabetically-sequential email addresses would be a usable
clue, but apparently not...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin