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Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:45:59 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Proper email spam filtering (was: Printer repair)

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Harry Motin wrote:
>
> Well, Peter, Junk Spy determined your message, below, to be
> JUNK. Apparently, you activated the following Junk Spy detector:
>
> Found: HOME-BASED BUSINESS from Get Rich detector.

Harry, J.R. and all other spam-flagging lurkers --

I've spent some time pondering how to get valid messages past junk/spam
filters so they don't accidentally get trash-canned.

Bottom line on filtering junk/spam mail is that the *sender* can't be
responsible for somehow massaging the message so it passes the
recipients' junk/spam tests because the sender has no way of knowing
what filtering technique each recipient might use. Junk Spy, indexed
word count, phrasing, black hole lookups, private filtering techniques
(hi Steven), there is simply no way a sender can know what message
content will "work" and what won't.

Thus, *you* as an email receiver have to set up your filters so that any
messages which are erroneously flagged as junk/spam are still seen by
you.

A quick thanks to Harry for pointing out the flagging of my message a
few days ago -- without his note back to me I wouldn't have analyzed the
problem.

And especially, my thanks to Randell Flint for his time this afternoon
in helping me come to the realization that the responsibility is on the
recipient, not the sender.

- Peter

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