newbie apologizes for spam filter headache

[zman]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Brian Henning wrote:
> Well I certainly apologize for causing you a headache because of my subject,
> but perhaps you should have your sysadmin whitelist your mailing lists..
> I'll try not to sound "spammish" in my subjects, but if all it takes is the
> subject of one message from a well-intentioned new list member to cause your
> spam filter to clamp down on a discussion list, methinks your spam filter
> needs some tweaking.

I concur...

> This isn't a personal jab.  From the sound of it, it's your sysadmin who has
> dominion over these things.

once again, what he said...

> If it helps, my original message coming back to me scored -4.9 on the
> spamassassin scale.  Negative points.  Granted I do have Bayesian filtering
> in place, but the Bayesian filter has never seen mail from ncsa-discussion
> before.

didn't even tickle mine...

> Regards,
> ~Brian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Mack NA3T" <jmack at wm7d.net>
> To: "NC*SA Discussion List" <ncsa-discussion at ncsysadmin.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Strangely Quiet?
>
>
>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Brian Henning wrote:
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>   I joined sometime last week, and I have yet to receive a single
> message...
>>> Just wondering if it really is this quiet, or if I'm actually missing
>>> something..  I used to be a member a long time ago, and I don't remember
> it
>>> ever being quite this quiet..
>>
>> well if it helps, your subject looked like spam, (along with "hey you"
>> etc), so now I'll have to go e-mail the sysadmin to ask him to edit the
>> spam file so I can get mail from ncsa-discussion again.
>>
>> Next time please use a subject that has some meaning like "why is
>> ncsa-discussion so quiet recently".
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joe
>>
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