[CAUT] caut spam filter (was Re: [SPAM?? 59%] Re: WNG/CF parts)

[Fred Sturm]

I have seen it sometimes in responses, but this has happened to at  
least one that I sent that wasn't a response but just a straight post:
[CAUT] [SPAM?? 59%] NYC piano manufacturers, ca 1860s
And the one in the subject line of this post, (WNG/CF parts) I  
responded to directly. It (the message I was responding to) shows in  
my mailbox without the SPAM tag, and in my sent box it has Re: [CAUT]  
WNG/CF parts  as its subject line. It is an isolated thing, but  
happened twice in a couple weeks, so I am wondering what's going on.
	It took quite a while for both to appear on the list. Maybe it is  
being caught by my university's outgoing filter somehow? That doesn't  
seem to make any sense. But maybe I should ask IT at UNM. The 59% part  
seems only to have happened to a couple of my posts.

Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Andy Rudoff wrote:

> The list software on the PTG server does occasionally hold posts if  
> it finds
> something questionable about them.  The most common reasons for this  
> are large
> attachments, messages with a large number of recipients, etc.  When  
> this happens,
> a member of the ECC does indeed take a look at the held post and  
> either approve
> it or reject it.
>
> But we don't add anything to the subject line.
>
> So what I think happened here is that a CAUT subscriber has software  
> that
> adds "[SPAM?? ...]" to the subject line of incoming messages, and that
> subscriber then replied to the message, posting the modified subject  
> line
> back to everyone else.  All I can say about software like that is:  
> yuck.
> But anyway, that's most likely how the word SPAM got added to the  
> thread.
>
> -andy
>
> Fred Sturm wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>    I have noticed recently that a couple of my posts seem to have  
>> been
>> caught in a spam filter, then presumably checked by the electronic
>> communications committee and posted with  [CAUT] [SPAM??] added to  
>> the
>> subject heading. Can anyone enlighten me about this? Are there  
>> things to
>> avoid that would keep this from happening?
>> Regards,
>> Fred Sturm
>> University of New Mexico
>> fssturm at unm.edu
>>
>>

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