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Dan, et al;
This morning I received three messages from NAV-L, all from Ken Gebhart all
from the same server. All of them were welcome and in no way exceptional.
The first message was labelled  ***SPAM***  The last two were not.
Reading the header information, the first message was given rating by
something called  X-ME-Spamlevel of 'notspam' and X-ME- spamrating ' 70.15 '
.  The last two were each designated 'notspam' ; 47.3 and 44.5 respectively.
The first message was labelled ***spam*** on its title and would ordinarily
have been invisibly dumped by my filter had I not been watching out for
this.
Somewhere between Nav-l and my ISP messages are being vetted and false
reputations attached.

Regards,

Clive.





---- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Hogan" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Missing messages (for Dan Hogan, etc.)


>> [Original Message]
>> From: George Huxtable 
>> To: 
>> Date: 2/8/2006 1:52:28 PM
>> Subject: Missing messages (for Dan Hogan, etc.)
>
> [SNIP of SPAM Problem]
>
>> How can we deal with this? First, is it really a genuine problem,
> affecting many Nav-L members?
>
> I am having the same problem my Spam filter marks certain Nav-L messages
> as
> spam.
>
>> Second, am I right in diagnosing it as a spam-filter problem?
>
> Definitely a SPAM filter problem.
>
>> Second, can we at least be sure when we are missing messages? Would it be
> possible for Nav-L to
>> attach a serial number to each message, incrementing by 1? Could this be
> appended to the "subject"
>> line, perhaps? Or even automatically inserted as the first line in the
> text? Then, we could be quite
>> sure about what's being missed. I am no expert on such matters, so have
> no idea whether such a
>> suggestion would be impossible to implement, or trivially easy.
>
> Both. Most individual ISPs have their own Spam Filters and individual
> computer users  have spam filters.
> I would use only ONE program.
>
> One need to know and understand how each Spam Filter operates. The are NOT
> alike.
>
>> One approach may be for me to ignore Nav-L incoming Email altogether, and
> instead go to the website
>> archive. Would that fix the problem?
>
> That's doing it the hard way. Find out how your spam filters the messages
> and how to set the ALLOW filter.
> Also the problem can occur with the way the Email Client program produces
> the message headings and addresses.
>
> My ISP (Earthlink) has their own Spam, Virus, and Pop-Up programs I
> switched to hem from Symantic.
>
> I get 2-3 Nav-L messages in my Suspicious Message file a day. I OK them
> for
> incoming mail and they seem to not repeat.
> But you need to check in the suspicious file of what ever Spam Program you
> use. And don't set it to delete ALL Spam.
> Use the built in filters of the program
>
>> It seems that those damned spammers are destroying the usefulness of
> emails. Must they win?
>
> I hope not.
>
> Dan Hogan
> dhhogan1@earthlink.net
> http://www.offsoundings.info/navl.htm
>
>

   

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