[pianotech] Somewhat OT -- Spam Software

[paul bruesch]

Ron,
The messages that have gone to my gmail spam folder are (strangely) not the
ones that were marked spam by the spam filter at the ptg end.

For example, Robert Scott's reply to John Formsma re the Car Talk puzzler
was trapped by MY new filter on the way to spam.

If you have any insight as to why gmail would think it's spam, I'd sure like
to hear it... but please understand that I do feel it's much more (if not
entirely) a gmail issue.

Paul

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Ron Berry <ron at berrypiano.com> wrote:

> The behavior you describe is exactly what I would expect. We have moved
> to a different server at a different hosting company. There have been lots
> of
> things that had to be fixed. We were only able to export the subscriber
> list
> for the 110 email lists. We lost all the configuration and I have spent
> most of
> this last week doing that.
>
> So..  it means that the lists were fairly wide open to begin with, that
> would
> account for the spam that went through. We were unable to run the spam
> software that we had been running. Then we added a different spam filter.
> Then I set it at what would be an overly tight level so I could see when we
> would start to get false positives. I found that level and then allowed 4
> messages through that had been labelled as SPAM in the subject line.  My
> gmail didn't put those in the spam bucket but you might have your filters
> set
> to do that. I have been watching the posts to all the lists to see what is
> labelled as SPAM. I think we may be at a safe level that will trap most of
> the
> bad stuff and none of the good stuff. There will undoubtedly be some spam
> that gets through but I would rather have that than trap a legitimate
> message. You own spam filter should be able to take care of that.
>
> There were numerous issues with the web site code because we are
> running on newer versions of apache, mySQL, and PHP. I think things have
> calmed down.
>
> ron
>
> On 8 Nov 2008 at 21:13, paul bruesch wrote:
>
> >
> > Ever since the software upgrade, I've started having ~15% - 20% of my
> pianotech messages go to
> > my gmail spam. Yesterday, I started receiving other legit emails in my
> gmail spam bucket as well.
> > Any other gmail users experiencing this? It's annoying to suddenly have
> to start creating filters just
> > to get proper delivery, which up 'til now has been essentially flawless.
> Paul Bruesch
> > Stillwater, MN
> >
>
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