[Eug Wanker]

Or at least that's what some anti-spam software thinks.

I sent out about 6 or 7 Xmas iCards (because I was too lazy to get myself organized to send real ones via snail mail), and a couple or three of them got labelled as spam at the other end.

One was labelled spam but sent through. Another bounced.

[rickey939]

Apple newsletters get classified as SPAM as well, at least for me.

[mindwaves]

It makes me worried. I just sent an ecard from 123greetings.com. I hope it went through. Too lazy to send one to myself to check.

[tooki]

Thank the folks who don't delete legitimate email they don't want, but rather use the "Submit as spam" button as the delete button, thus tagging it as spam for future users, too...

tooki

[DeathToWindows]

Fools should not be thanked, they should be beaten with a stick, kept on good behavior with the promise of a carrot and when they screw up, beaten with two more sticks.

Yes, shameless BOFH ripoff.

[Athens]

and most people are to lazy to create a safe list/friends list and add people to address books too. I have my filter set to label everything as spam unless it comes from some one on my safe list or address book.

[wdlove]

That is very sad. Of no system is perfect.

[ghporter]

I've had trouble with 123Greetings stuff-not that it was marked as spam, but that my recipients wound up getting undesired emails...

Most people are indeed too lazy to bother to do any thinking about whether the mail they receive is spam; they actually open and read the stuff. I can usually decide by the first couple words of the subject line whether it's spam or not (hint: I do not consider the Internet to be the best place to buy prescription drugs without a prescription, to get valuable hints on stocks, or to "enhance" any portion of my anatomy).

Because of this, I examine the subjects of all my email, even those items tagged as spam. Yahoo, for example likes to put all my mailing list items in the Bulk folder, no matter how many times I click the "Not Spam" button for the desired items. My SWBell account has what is called a "spam filter" but it's about as effective as a chicken wire coffee filter, so I read all of those items anyway.

Athens, your process is a good one as long as nobody you want email from uses an unexpected mail source; ecards, for example, could be misfiled because only a few use the sender's return address. Still, it's better than most other filter methods, and if it works for you it's great.

[Athens]

Originally Posted by ghporter

I've had trouble with 123Greetings stuff-not that it was marked as spam, but that my recipients wound up getting undesired emails...

Most people are indeed too lazy to bother to do any thinking about whether the mail they receive is spam; they actually open and read the stuff. I can usually decide by the first couple words of the subject line whether it's spam or not (hint: I do not consider the Internet to be the best place to buy prescription drugs without a prescription, to get valuable hints on stocks, or to "enhance" any portion of my anatomy).

Because of this, I examine the subjects of all my email, even those items tagged as spam. Yahoo, for example likes to put all my mailing list items in the Bulk folder, no matter how many times I click the "Not Spam" button for the desired items. My SWBell account has what is called a "spam filter" but it's about as effective as a chicken wire coffee filter, so I read all of those items anyway.

Athens, your process is a good one as long as nobody you want email from uses an unexpected mail source; ecards, for example, could be misfiled because only a few use the sender's return address. Still, it's better than most other filter methods, and if it works for you it's great.

Anything marked as spam gets put into the spam folder. Its easy to spot the real spam from the maybes and look at them, and add them to the safe list.

[PB2K]

i'm probably old but any email that is a quick congratulating picture i can do without.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Athens

Anything marked as spam gets put into the spam folder. Its easy to spot the real spam from the maybes and look at them, and add them to the safe list.

Cool. It's a good system.