Re: your spam filter is hurting you

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

I got it.  I was looking through my logs regularly just to be sure.  And I
found his message.

(I'm always surprised how frequently people will not even reply with my
full name in a mail message -- it's not very hard to figure out what my
full name is given my e-mail address!  Oh, well.)

Thanks for the heads-up.

 > From: Mike Abbott <http://www.attbi.com/~mja63>
 > Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 21:42:38 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > Someone from Yahoo is unable to contact you to set up a phone interview
 > because your spam filter is blocking them.  You might want to make it a
 > bit less aggressive.
 > 
 > > Kinda tricky contacting this guy sometimes.
 > > I'll have to ask him about false positives I reckon.
 > 
 > >> Subject: please try sending your message again
 > >> 
 > >> Sorry, but my mail filter thinks that you are sending me SPAM and your
 > >> message has been marked for deletion and may not be read.  To avoid 
 > >> this, please resend your message with either exactly the same subject of a
 > >> message I sent to you before this one or keywords such as where we met 
 > >> or you saw me, my full name, your full name, etc..  If a spammer has sent 
 > >> you a message using my address, please forward the message to your ISP 
 > >> instead of replying to me.  Thanks.
 > 
 > >>> Subject: I'd like to schedule a phone interview with you
 > >>> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-99.5 required=8.0
 > >>> 	tests=SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_IN_WHITELIST
 > >>> 	version=2.43-csoft_leary1
 > >>> X-SBRule: IP 216.145.52.229 is in five-ten-sg (spam sources)
 > >>> X-SBRule: Free Email site
 > >>> X-SBClass: Blocked