[Rule] Message for Shae

sds97b at mizzou.edu sds97b at mizzou.edu
Wed Feb 20 02:36:41 EET 2008


I am not sure what story you got from the admin, but I believe they
are having some issues because some of my emails have been marked as
spam to fellow students.  Anywho you could try my informal email
address, starfall87 at gmail.com

On 2/19/08, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 08:44:15 AM -0600, sds97b at mizzou.edu wrote:
> > Oh wow.  What email address were you trying to use?
> >
>
> The one at mizzou.edu, of course: sds97b at mizzou.edu . Let's hope you
> get this through the list :-)
>
> For the record (nothing personal, of course, just some consideration
> of general interest to all email users):
>
> 1) this is why blacklists are real bad (at least as the _only_ method, as
> is happening in this case, to block incoming mail)
>
> 2) blacklists which, like the ones used by your sysadmin, do not provide
> an address or web form that you can use to prove you're not a spammer
> and should be removed, are the worst ones
>
> 3) think if there had been money involved, that is if you had given
> that email address as contact to some potential employer... he'd have
> already called the next applicant ten nanoseconds after seeing the
> bounce :-)
>
> 4) see # 1
>
> Ciao,
>                  Marco
>
> > On 2/18/08, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> > > Sorry to use the list in this way, but I have no alternative right
> > > now.  Shae, I sent you a private message about RULE twice in the last
> > > week. Both times it came back because your server rejected mine as a
> > > spam source (which it never was). This is because your email
> > > administrator (even AFTER I contacted him and he answered,
> > > acknowledged the error and said he'd fix it) keeps using some dumb
> > > blacklist.
> > >
> > > At this point, I have no way to contact you directly unless you make
> > > him change that setting or use a different provider, sorry.
> > >
> > > Ciao,
> > >                       Marco
> > >
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