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"Spam" to SPSSX-L (was, re: Model selection)

Posted by Richard Ristow on Oct 11, 2006; 8:31pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Model-selection-tp1071432p1071435.html

At 11:46 AM 10/11/2006, King Douglas wrote:

>I seem to be unable to post to the SPSS-X listserv.  My query is
>returned as rejected by the server as "spam."  Any ideas?

I recently had a posting rejected as spam. I asked, and at 05:15 PM
10/5/2006, UGA Listserv Admin (thanks, Jean Snow) wrote:

>Damn... Sorry about this.  We had to seriously lower spam thresholds
>and add tests last month because Listserv and our mail gateways were
>constantly being blocked by SpamCop, and sadly, many of our
>subscriber's sites use it to determine what's spam. People were
>getting autodeleted.  It was really bad.

And at 09:02 PM 10/6/2006, UGA Listserv Admin wrote:

>Give Nathan a little time, and the UGA rules will be tweaked to let
>your, and similar, posts through.  And do let us know if this happens
>in the future.

So it's a known problem. I've no idea how widespread; have other people
had legitimate posts rejected?

Jean, should people forward you copies of the messages for rejected
legitimate postings?

-Cheers and tangles,
  Richard