Re: [flalug] Junk Filter False Positives (was:Eight signs Microsoft is dead in the water)

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 22:48:41 EDT

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:17:47PM -0500, Jim Hartley wrote:
> I have noted a tendency on this list toward appends with a link and
> NOTHING ELSE - no comment, no explanation, nothing. Unfortunately, this
> seems to trigger the "Junk" filter for my SeaMonkey (Mozilla) mail
> client, and I'm not sure how to change that to fix these false positives
> - any suggestions?
>
> Or, may I suggest - just my opinion - that it might be better
> "Netiquette" not to do this ... on other lists I note that appends tend
> to have a little "chatter" ("Hey look at this cheap shot at Bill Gates")
> and/or a sig, in addition to the link, and those do not seem to trigger
> Junk false positives. Comments?

I tend to agree with that analysis of the situation. Besides, getting
nothing but a URL doesn't really motivate me to check it out: I'm pretty
busy, and like to know what an article or other webpage is going to be
about before I bother to do anything but delete the email. 

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Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
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