[FWDLK] mailing list suggestion for users

[paul <paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I just completed my weekly review of the SPAM folder that my ISP 
hosts on their SITE for holding messages until the user collects or 
reads their email.

Several years ago a lot of e-mail services increased the strengths of 
their own SPAM filtering to catch a lot more of the spam that is still 
floating around out in the vast wasteland of the internet. What I have 
learned to do was to check the online prefiltering that the ISP does for 
me, and I have noticed that they catch a lot, almost all the SPAM never 
hits my incoming mail folders on my PC when my e-mail client (software) 
collects the waiting messages.

Here's the Gotcha and the reason for this message.
  Their SPAM filtering DOES trap and prevent the delivering of some 
valid traffic, So There are Valid Messages in that SPAM folder that is 
never sent down to me to read.  Mostly my mailing list traffic is 
affected, but at odd times other messages that it would have been nice 
to get are trapped and therefore never delivered to me. My ISP also 
AUTOMATICALLY cleans out that SPAM folder every 7 days so if I fail to 
check it inside that time period, those messages are lost to me forever 
unless the original sender resends the message and it makes thru the 
online SPAM filtering process.

With my particular ISP I have yet to locate the user ability to fine 
tune their filtering, hence the efforts to at least visit the online 
folder and the (for me) remote accessing of my email service at least 
once every 6 days or so, if I don't have a 'Senior moment' and forget to 
do so.  With my provider, remote online accessing is the ONLY way to 
view the contents of the folder they filter out and prevent being 
delivered to my computer automatically as per my other valid message 
traffic.



--
Paul Holmgren
Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy
Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Stage 1
Hoosier Corps L#6

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