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Are Spam Blockers Too Strict?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unequivocal-no dept.

Myrte writes "Wired.com has a long piece on whether spam blockers are blocking wanted messages." From the article: "For years, e-mail users complained that torrents of unwanted messages clogged their inboxes and crimped their productivity. Now, e-mail users, marketers and mailing list operators are more worried that spam filters are blocking out too many wanted messages. AOL isn't the only company to face charges that it improperly blocks legitimate messages. But, as the world's largest ISP for years, it has long borne the brunt of complaints from mass e-mailers over the problem."

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  1. Spam blockers ruined my life. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks to my damn spam blocker, I've missed out on hundreds of opportunities to accept millions of dollars from Nigerian royalty.

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    1. Re:Spam blockers ruined my life. by dotpavan · · Score: 2, Funny

      ha! try beating this: How much ever we cry, Dvorak stories get through /. filters :)

    2. Re:Spam blockers ruined my life. by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 4, Funny

      You think that's bad? Thanks to spam blockers, my dick is only one inch long.

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    3. Re:Spam blockers ruined my life. by myth24601 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I deal with the email here and got a message forwarded to me which my boss got from a user complaining about spam. The message was one of those messages talking up some penny stock that we should buy.

      I looked up the the penny stock then shot an email back to my boss letting him know that the particular stock was up 60% from the day before.

      We had a good laugh.

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  2. Re:Not a chance by EvanED · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop using email. It's 100% effective at blocking email spam.

  3. Re:Gmail by Carrot007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like it was working fine to me ;-)

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  4. Re:As Hermann Pasquale so eloquently put it... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Funny

    What some people won't do to avoid the Slashdot Lameness Filter.

    Ironically, this is what spammers do :-/

  5. Re:I've Definitely Had Problems With AOL - Be Afra by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny
    Not only did the doctors opt-in to receive these emails...approx 25% of which were AOL users.

    So 25% of doctors are AOL users. Now I'm really afraid to go in for my next checkup.

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  6. Re:It's not that they're too strict by sfjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I get spam sent via email. I get spam in my snail mailbox. I get spam on my fax machine. I get spammed by cold calls from sales drones/marketers.

    Shakespeare got it wrong - The first thing we must do is kill all the marketing department.

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