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Spam Catchers Block Latest Crypto-Gram
An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier sent out a note about SpamAssassin and possibly other spam filters blocking his excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter. Fortunately you can get it here (early no less!)." Schneier's email reads, in part "Tomorrow I will be sending out the February CRYPTO-GRAM, as I do on the 15th of every month. In the process of creating this month's Crypto-Gram, I discovered that SpamAssassin thinks that this issue is spam, probably because of certain links and descriptions of scams in the text. I have anecdotal evidence that other spam filters block Crypto-Gram as well. ... I'd apologize for the inconvenience, but I'm not sure what I could do to make it less so -- I don't intend to alter my content to accommodate spam filters."
Why ?
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I realize its tradition and there's a certain extra bit of personal ownership involved in having a copy of the contents arrive entirely in my mailbox, but... Why do newsletters waste the bandwidth of sending out copies of the content to everyone on the list? A small email with a single link to the contents of the new newsletter would work just as well and only those people that read it would spend the bandwidth. In addition, the author could then scrutinize the logs and see what links and what sections generated interest and perhaps better serve the (sometimes not fully understood) audience.