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"Elys, FYI, I've sent you several emails with no reply."

I hate to say it..but.....

Email irregularities are the price we pay for the runaway "spam" epidemic. Mail servers all around the world get placed automatically on someone's anti-spam "real time blackhole list" for days at a time, or a statistical anti-spam filter just erases an inbound legit email message to you because of the confluence of several chance factors that produce a "false positive match" as spam.

People who use the free anonymous email services are the most at-risk of not getting all their email (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.).

Elys, would you happen to know what some of the criteria are that spam filters use? I'm wondering if there's certain words or characters in the subject line that should be avoided to ensure the best chance of the message getting through.

Elys, I sent you an email about how to get $500 free in your casino account and cheap prescription drugs and herbal manhood enhancers. I don't think it got through though. It was in all caps and everything.

(what other spam factors did I miss?)

"Elys, FYI, I've sent you several emails with no reply."

"I hate to say it..but....."

Did I miss something here, Dave?

I sent one about a month ago, too. No reply.

Am i the only one who didn't send any?

"Did I miss something here, Dave?"

No Jim..

I think that I too had some emails that went into the phantom zone, that's all. Nothing important.

So it seems that I need to fine-tune the anti-spam filters here by simply gathering up all the email addresses from which email could have been sent, and enter them all into the anti-spam filter's "whitelist". This list tells the anti-spam engine to pass any email from those addresses directly through without first examining them to see if they are spam.

Jo, there are too many factors to include here on how it matches, but Jake is hitting a lot of them. A pattern-match looks for text strings that match commonly-found spam messages headers and bodies. Then, a Bayesian filter examines 15 or so words at random and scores how often those words appear in spam. Then, a comparison is done between the email's source IP address and a RBL list maintained at several third-party sites to see if the sending IP address corresponds to a mail server that has been reported to be sending out lots of spam recently.

A few other things are checked, such as does the sending email address exist, does it fail a SPF (sender policy framework) DNS check, etc.

Then and only then does it get delivered into a user's inbox to be downloaded next time they check their email.

Sheena, good news!! I DID get all the email messages that you didn't send

And Dave, everything is all set with Darren, and I will be coming up to Pennsylvania to see you in about five weeks or so to pick it up!

Elys, if you did it on 7/15 Sunday, you could also check out one hell of a guitar show too.

GUITAR SHOW??!!

tell me more....

some of the forum members that I send emails to come back bounced ... there are 4 or 5 that I can't email ...

Shoot, I would have gone to that guitar show! Got Mets tickets for that afternoon.