[TowerTalk] private emails not getting through Re: Recent posts

[Roger (K8RI)]

jimlux wrote:
> Bill Tippett wrote:
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>> P.S.  I don't have a lot of patience with folks who are too lazy to 
>> search the archives or read private emails sent directly to them.
>>     
>
> With respect to the latter, emails can go astray for a variety of 
> reasons.  Over the years, I've set up various and sundry aliases (e.g. 
> w6rmk at earthlink.net, w6rmk at arrl.org, jimlux at ieee.org), and in some 
> cases, they don't forward reliably. 
Virtually all of my mail is forwarded.  I've not had any problems there, 
but there are a number of the ISPs that give free e-mail accouts that 
are black listed.  Spammers get onto these sites and keep changing 
addresses until the site gets black listed.  I have admin priveleges at 
my ISP and all bounced e-mail is forwarded to a quarantine area for that 
particular account at the ISP.   Still, I've found e-mails sent to me 
that were waylaid some where along the line before they ever reached my 
ISP.  Any more if I don't receive an answer to an e-mail I give it three 
more tries before giving up and that includes having the ISP check the 
route.
>  (Earthlink, in particular, seems to 
> forget about forwarding after about 6 months, unless you log in and 
> "touch" the account every once in a while).  Or, I've had forwarding 
> chains, and one of the links breaks.
>
> Finally, over effective spam filters can sometimes silently get rid of 
> things, although thankfully, this is becoming more rare.
>   
I've found the opposite with the number of false positives reaching 
ridiculous numbers although it does cycle.
It runs about 10% here on TT and about 50% on the amps @ contesting . 
com reflector.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> jim
> w6rmk
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