[Elecraft] E-mail Warning ...

[Julian, G4ILO]

Joe Subich, W4TV-3 wrote:
> 
> It's not that all postings are being bounced.  QTH.NET has 
> instituted a bunch of new spam filters in this e-mail servers. 
> Those filters include filtering on INDIVIDUAL WORDS.  For 
> example, the post I was trying to send included the word 
> "r e p l i c a t e."  It had been QUOTED from a post by 
> VP8NO.  However, my response and a follow-up response by 
> VP8NO both bounced.  I have just resent that posting with 
> the "offending" word replaced by a synonym.  
> 
> The paranoid behavior of the owners or QTH.net is making 
> all lists on this server practically useless.  I wonder if 
> there are any offending words in this post?  
> 
> 

It has always filtered on individual words. Perhaps some new words have been
added. The problem is that email reflectors are an outdated technology from
the days when spam was not an issue. There is no requirement to log in to a
system before you can post. You can just address an email to the list
server. And anyone can spoof the sender address so that a message appears to
come from a registered subscriber. A spam filter is the only way to stop
such attempts. Perhaps the one used by QTH.NET is particularly dumb, but I
don't think any spam filter is 100% accurate.

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