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

[Jeff Tanner]

We had software similar to what Andy describes at USC.  Many of the CAUT posts would come into my inbox with SPAM followed by a number of asterisks (which gave "spam rating") in the subject line.  We just bought a new HP for the store with Vista Home Premium, and the email program that came with it has been putting a number of the CAUT posts directly into the "Junk Email" folder.  It's also more difficult to reply to messages.  Each different message I try to reply to has different "rules" apparently.  Cutting and pasting work differently from email to email, apparently depending on the email program sent from each sender.  The recent emails from Tony are particulary difficult to reply to.  Some even have completely different toolbars.  With some emails I can access the "fonts" function and others won't let me.  Some replies, like below, make it easy to see what you're replying to, and others don't show a difference.

Jeff
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Sturm 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] caut spam filter (was Re: [SPAM?? 59%] Re: WNG/CF parts)


  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






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080702/150a5035/attachment.html