Re: [tlug] Making sure people get the message

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

I've installed Spamassassin and have been using it to check for problems 
with my emails. That, plus a little help from the PHP general mailing 
list, and I've managed to alter it so that mails I send via PHP are less 
"spammy".

However, just for interest's sake, I tried testing various emails I both 
give and receive to see how they rated. Almost all emails came up with 
at least some measure of spamminess. Emails from hotmail got at least 1 
point on Spamassassins's scale (where a score of 5 means it's definitely 
spam). Other emails scored at least 0.2.

What struck me as odd, though is that one of the emails that did not 
come up with any score indicating spamminess was an email I send using 
Majordomo. It got a spam score of 0.

This is odd to me because emails through majordomo seem to be the ones 
that have the most trouble getting through to users. I know that emails 
from my majordomo lists are almost always blocked by Hotmail, and 
recently by Yahoo accounts and by mac.com.

Is the problem with mailing lists in general having a bad rep? Is it 
majordomo in particular? Is there anything that can be done about it? Or 
is it just over-enthusiastic anti-spam measures on the part of various ISPs?

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Dave M G
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Kernel 2.6.17.7
Pentium D Dual Core Processor
PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2