[pianotech] Somewhat OT -- Spam Software

Jason Kanter jkanter at rollingball.com
Mon Nov 10 11:57:59 PST 2008


Same issue here. I have been using the term "pianotech" as the filter and I
just added the term "ptg" to that filter. Anything that is caught by the
filter will not be dumped to spam. I'm certain the string "ptg" will be a
reliable indicator of good mail.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jim Moy <jim at moypiano.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> That's interesting, because I haven't changed my Gmail filters at all, and
> messages from all lists continue to be filtered appropriately.  My filter
> uses the "list:" keyword, which I would have guessed needed changing to the
> new server if the List-Id header changed.  But perhaps Gmail is looking at
> multiple factors; there are a half-dozen List-* headers in the recent
> messages.
>
> Since this came up, I looked a little further back and did find two
> messages in my Spam bucket that I missed before that shouldn't have been
> filtered out, so perhaps I am seeing what you described.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote:
>
>> JimJust FYI, the pianotech list shows up in my gmail as being from list <
>> pianotech_ptg.org.ptg.org> now.  I certainly mark non-spam things as "not
>> spam" as well.
>> Paul
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Jim Moy <jim at moypiano.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:13 PM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> 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?
>>>
>>> I have three separate Gmail accounts that get heavy use every day and
>>> have had no difficulties.  However, I have the following filter for
>>> the PTG lists:
>>>
>>>  Matches: (list:(pianotech at ptg.org) OR list:(ptg-l at ptg.org)
>>>    OR list:(caut at ptg.org) OR list:(examprep.ptg.org) OR
>>> list:(refinish.ptg.org))
>>>  Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "Lists"
>>>
>>> If messages are inadvertently labeled Spam, I am very diligent about
>>> marking them Not Spam so the Gmail algorithms can do their thing.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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