[Coco] Re: Boisy & Mark

[John E. Malmberg]

Mark Marlette wrote:
> At 12:09 PM 2/27/2005, you wrote:
>  
> Use this one.
> 
> mark-6Hspleym3/EqDJ6do+/SaQ(at)public.gmane.org

Mark, and others, please use name(at)domain.tld or your e-mail address 
does not get through the gmane munger.  And the gmane munged e-mail 
addresses only work for a short while.

> That one should work. My new ISP has some SPAM blocking software that is 
> a REAL PIA. It has Boisy as SPAM as well even though he is in my safe 
> list.

The existence of a list of safe e-mail addresses indicates that the spam 
blocking software is 10 years out of date.

> Tech support is lame, but to get DSL I have one choice. No cable 
> here in the woods. Might have to look at DTV's Internet service.

I would run a google search on them or any other service before you 
change to them.

I have a worse problem, I can only get one cable ISP, and that only 
allows client connections.  If I want to host a web page with my own 
domain, I have to pay someone else.  I can not host a web page from any 
of my local systems.  Some cable ISP's will allow you to buy a service 
that provides this, but mine does not.

For the last few years the spam filtering at my broadband ISP was 
extremely bad.  It was deleting good mails according to users reporting 
on an internal newsgroup, and it proved to be incapable of using the 
most elementary algorithms that can positively some types of spam.

It appeared that the only reason that they even provided the spam blocking

This changed this last year, and while I do not know for sure why, it 
may have been from a number of us posting on internal forum educating 
the other users on what the state of the art of spam filtering was, and 
that not only it was far more accurate to what the ISP was using, it 
also cost a lot less to do.  So it could be that if you can get the 
other customers of the ISP to keep asking them why they are using an 
inaccurate and expensive spam filter instead of the state of the art 
methods which are both accurate and cost less.

-John
wb8tyw(at)qsl.net
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