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I hereby grrrrrowl at Windows Live Mail’s spam filter

The darned thing filtered a message from a principal in the district I’ve signed a letter of intent for, in which she was trying to set up a phone interview…Microsoft is lucky I check the spam folder instead of just trashing it.  Gross Viagra ads get through just fine, but a principal trying to maybe give me a job, “oh noes!”

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11 Responses to “I hereby grrrrrowl at Windows Live Mail’s spam filter”

  1. Teresa Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    That’s messed up.

  2. WeatherMod Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    Yeah, I’ve had stuff get filtered that shouldn’t. What makes it funnier is that sometimes the PSU server will mark a message as spam even though it’s coming from someone else at the university. :lol:

  3. Teresa Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    That’s just funny.

  4. Avrila Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    You’d think they (MSN, universities, small furry animals (I’m apparently on a small furry animal kick today), whoever) could write or license a better way of weeding out spam. I mean, Akismet hasn’t been wrong yet, here, and seeing as there are so many free licenses out there and those servers can’t be cheap to maintain with so many people bouncing stuff off them, Matt Mullenweg and his geek squad of coders can’t be making that much more than pizza money off it…so…it can’t be that hard, if it’s worth it to them…

  5. WeatherMod Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 7:13 am

    Penn State’s Webmail catches spam pretty well (though they didn’t tell me how to filter it with Outlook until midway through the year…three and a half years too late, I think). Recently I downloaded the free firewall program ZoneAlarm, and it also filters email, and it works pretty darn well.

    Of course, Penn Staters get a lot of spam. This is partly the university’s fault for the way they do email addresses. Every student and faculty member gets an email address with three letters (their initials) followed by four (used to be three) numbers. That’s it. A spammer who knows this could easily create a program to pull three letters and four numbers together, add the PSU domain, and send them off. Penn State makes spammers happy.

  6. Avrila Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Hmm…I could even darn near write that code. That sucks.

  7. WeatherMod Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    Oh, I’m sure with a little C++ refresher I could do it, too. I take solace in the fact that people are going to get emails bounced back left and right once my account gets deactivated.

  8. Avrila Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    Are you sure about that? WOU’s still forwarding to me and OSU has “lifetime e-mail forwarding.”

  9. WeatherMod Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s no email forwarding. If there is, then I’ll create a WL account or something so it can all dump there and I never have to look at it.

  10. Avrila Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    LOL, if you’re going to not check it anyway, just give a nonexistent address.

  11. WeatherMod Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    Hmm, there’s a thought…

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