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Chris Beggy news at kippona.com
Tue Oct 15 23:22:05 PDT 2002


/ dave / <arouet at winternet.com> writes:


> Kendall Clark wrote:
>
> Doug Henwood wrote: (...)
>
>
> They've done some kind of "upgrade" - a few of the formats/options
> changed ever-so-slightly earlier today, so it's possible the message
> bounces and related problems over the past few days had something to
> do with the changeover.
>
> More than that, they appear to have done something drastic to deal
> with spam as well, though I can't imagine what. Prior to today I was
> typically waking each morning to 35-50 spam messages in my Hotmail
> account, with another 50 or so coming during the day. Today I've
> received exactly 7 - which, far from making me feel better, actually
> makes me wonder how in the world they could possibly be filtering spam
> so effectively without eliminating mail I need to get.

FWIW, I had to whitelist @lists.panix.com in my spam filters some time ago. I use a number of dns based blacklist filters, and someone added that domain.

Chris



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