[NewPacifica] Re: Moderation and Ownership is the Salvation of



On Wed Apr 30, 2008, Emmett Abati Doe wrote:

>So explain access being denied postings from me?

A precise explanation would require a precise incident report and the
exact mail daemon error message, but I can reply generally.

You have a tendency to broadcast each of your messages to multiple
individuals and lists who have not requested them.  Some messages may
be off-topic to some lists, which can trigger a period of
moderator-initiated subscriber moderation on a single list.  When a
subscriber is on moderation, each of their messages must be
individually approved by the moderator before posting, causing a
posting delay.  Obviously, you are not currently denied posting
privileges on the NewPacifica list, since that's where I read your
reply.

Some internet lists and individual mailboxes are configured to
automatically block messages that include more than a certain number
of recipient addresses, since multiple recipients is a common
characteristic of email spam.  Individual mailboxes blocking your
messages for this reason can usually be configured by their owners to
allow multi-recipient messages from designated accounts via
"whitelisting."  Some but not all spam-filtered internet lists also
have this "whitelist" capability.

Additionally, each individual receiving your messages has an
opportunity to report it as spam, and many who subscribe to Yahoo!
lists use their Yahoo! email address for their Yahoo! list
subscriptions.  If a Yahoo! subscriber reports a message as spam
through the provided SpamGuard facility, other messages from the same
address or from a different address but with similar content may be
automatically tagged as spam and routed to the bulk mail folders of
all Yahoo! addressees in the recipient list.  

Occasionally, message from you have included all caps in the subject
line or in the message body.  This is another common characteristic of
spam and there are several such characteristics that an intelligent
anti-spam filter may examine and assign a score when analyzing a
particular message to determine its delivery routing.  Messages with
binary or html attachments are additionally filtered by many engines
or individual recipients as potentially including malware.

Certain phrases or links in subject lines or message bodies can also
trigger a high-probability spam ranking, but I haven't noticed your
messages as being of this sort.  If enough Yahoo! subscribers reported
your messages as spam, the "people made in america" phrase could
become a SpamGuard trigger, but I expect that your email address would
become an automatic Yahoo! spam trigger long before any such phrase in
a message body would.  Yahoo! subscribers going through their bulk
mail folders and reporting your messages as NOT spam after SpamGuard
filtering would offset the Yahoo! subscribers reporting spam.  Some
other anti-spam engines and whitelists work similarly.

--Terry Goodman



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