I just heard from a subscriber to my newsletter (which you could be for free if you clicked here) that SpamAssassin and its Windows version, Spamnix, decided that my latest issue was spam and didn’t deliver it. So, now I may have to send a follow-on notice to all my subscribers asking them if they received the issue, the type of needless annoyance we use spam filters to prevent.

By the way, my 70K ASCII newsletter apparently got flagged because I put article titles in caps, because a robot found it pornographic (probably because of my Freudian analysis of Bush), and because it thinks I use “\#” as a filename (I don’t).

You know what? False positives are unacceptable in a spam filter, especially one that doesn’t even tell you what it’s filtering out.

If you subscribe to my newsletter and didn’t get a copy yesterday, please let me know. I bitterly thank you.

Categories: Uncategorized dw