..a word of caution..

[Avery Todd]

Hi Andy,

    I just wanted to say how much I (we) appreciate your efforts. Thanks.

Avery

At 09:30 PM 01/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >i may be speaking out of turn here, but honestly, I'm trying to save Andy
> >some work.
>
>I appreciate the sentiment!  In this case, however, you needn't worry.
>Here's why:
>
>When I notice SPAM or virus messages spreading across Internet mail,
>I usually put some sort of "filter" in place to catch them before they
>go out on pianotech.  Sometimes, my filter isn't good enough to catch
>every case, and you all see the post make it through.  Other times my
>filter catches too much, and some posts are delayed while the messages
>wait in my mailbox for me to approve them.  I try to run through my mail
>looking for possible approvals a couple times a day, but if I'm busy
>or travelling, it can go 24 or 48 hours.
>
>So if you notice that your post to pianotech takes a long time, it may
>be because you put a word in it that got caught in my filters.  But
>don't sweat it, once I see that my filters caught your mail, I approve
>it and let the message through.  In the case mentioned above, where
>the filter was looking for "sex" in the Subject field and the Subject
>contained "Essex", I fixed the filter to be more specific so it won't
>catch posts from that thread anymore.
>
>Your obediant server administrator,
>
>-andy