Eric wrote on 01/14/2010 03:37:30 PM:

> [snip] The second and very recent
> example is a message that got rejected because it contained the word
> SPECIALIST. I don't want to type it and get filtered, but cut the
> first three and last character and you will understand why
> specialist discussions must be banned ;-) But if you are using a

Must have been a particularly stupid filter or configured by someone that
has never heard of the Scunthorpe Problem that AOL encountered 14 years
ago.

I ran into a filter that triggered on the F-bomb which was found in the
middle of a base64 encoded binary attachment.  I kept a copy of that one
for my wall of shame.

> reasonably cautious spam filter, I would consider it "best practice"
> to put LISTSERV behind the spam filter (and of course monitor it
> carefully the first few days).

Monitoring after implementing ANY new system or change is a must!!

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