[extropy-chat] meta: for Robert Bradbury

[Robert J. Bradbury]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Russell Evermore wrote:

> Sent you a PM the other day using an email address culled from the Javien
> archives circa 2002 - bradbury at aeiveos.com

Russell, the address is still valid though over the last couple of
months and including the last week I've had some unusual data & ISP
connection problems.

But I would suspect the problem may be my email filtering.
Like Amara I'm using spambouncer as a rule based filtering
system, but on top of that I'm using spamprobe to do Bayesian
filtering.  (It was a pain to setup but it works fairly well.)

But for some messages one may end up as a false positive
and end up in a folder I look at with only a weekly or
monthly frequency.  (Don't send me anything with keywords
like "viagra" or various misspellings... :-))

Also since I'm using some of black listings for filtering
so if your address or your ISP has been blacklisted in some
way it may be difficult to reach me.

In this situation individuals should attempt to arrange
contact through trusted individuals.  For example messages
from Spike, Amara, Damien and Brett seem to have no problem
getting through the filters.  Its easy to add additional
names to the list that should not be filtered though I'm
not sure I understand the filtering process sufficiently
to know when messages might get caught in the net.

So don't give up -- just be a little more clever.
Robert