Spam - how is it defined?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I've only been getting e-mail notifications from Organissimo on sparse occasions for several days now. It's a pain in the arse.

But today, when I logged into my e-mail box, my hand slipped and instead of hitting the inbox, I hit the spam box. And I found all the missing e-mail notifications.

OK, now I really haven't declared to my hotmail provider that e-mil notifications from Organissimo are spam. So, how do these things get defined as spam? Is it something that I've done? Is it something that the board has done? Or is it just shit happening?

MG

[Claude]

The criteria used by spam filters vary, but usually you can add email senders to a "white list", so the emails will pass the filter although they match it's spam criteria.

Edited September 20, 2007 by Claude

[Jim Alfredson]

With services like Hotmail, sometimes if you delete multiple messages from the same sender repeatedly, without reading them, the service will automatically assume that the messages must be spam or junk mail.

The solution is to simply add the forum email address to your "white list" or "safe list".

[Jazzmoose]

Ham, pork, sugar, salt, water, potato starch, and sodium nitrate.

[Joe G]

Ham, pork, sugar, salt, water, potato starch, and sodium nitrate.

Just add Dancerchick.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

With services like Hotmail, sometimes if you delete multiple messages from the same sender repeatedly, without reading them, the service will automatically assume that the messages must be spam or junk mail.

The solution is to simply add the forum email address to your "white list" or "safe list".

Thanks Jim - I didn't know you could do things like that, so I never asked yahoo how to do it.

MG