E-Mail being bounced when sending things about G-Warming.

I don't know if it's on my end, my ISP or somewhere else how ever.

I just saw a nice long article that was posted about the Global warming scam and also a reply about an E-mail on the subject.

I tried like hell to forward that to a selected few on my E-Mail list to only get a response back after some unusual delay in the send process, that the first person on my list wasn't accepting E-mails from me.

So, I started with removing that person only to have it report the same on the next, etc....

Its not like something locally happening on my end because I watch the send progress and it's taking a little more time than usual to complete how ever, it's looks like it's being verified but taking longer than normal, then it comes back with a failed message as I indicated.

So I was able to send it but not until I edited the subject line to something very simple and vague about the contents.

So, I don't know where this goes.

This isn't the first time I've had problems forwarding messages on subject matter from here recently. Mostly to do with politics and the global warming adventures.

It could be something whacked out characters I'm not seeing my the subject line. who knows..

I know if I start with a new message and copy+paste, that usually works. But I use a subject line of my own..

It sounds like it hit the spam filter.

It's quite common for "chain letters" (i.e. heavily-forwarded messages) to end up classified as spam, either because:

a) the spam filter automatically considers it spam when thousands of identical copies of a message are sent from or to thousands of different accounts over an extended period of time (i.e. not typical legitimate mailing list or mail-shot traffic), and/or

b) because it's the kind of material where many of the senders assume (in spite of prior experience to the contrary) that *everyone* will want to know about it, even when they ought know by now that half of the recipients don't actually share their political views, and some of those recipients will even click the "report this message as spam" button.

Note: option b) doesn't have to apply to you personally, just to some non-trivial proportion of those who have previously forwarded the same message.

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How big is it? Some mail servers might have a size limitation.

Good Luck! Rich

So, it is OK for you to watch and report on leftist weenies, but you don't like when leftist weenies watching and reporting on you?

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I stripped the message down to the latest reply post and it still wouldn't go, I finally edited the subject line with "Please Read this" and that worked. Oh well.

I get the feeling that my ISP or some where along the route is filtering messages.

THis isn't the first time it has happen and it normally happens from post I get from here or other NNTP rooms that I like to forward onto my friends.

Sure sounds like a spam filter. If this was happening with messages which you composed yourself, I'd look for other reasons, but if it's for messages which have been "doing the rounds", chances are that the exact same message can be found in "known spam" databases.

Many ISPs are far more aggressive about filtering outbound mail than inbound. Most users would prefer to have the occasional spam message in their inbox than to have legitimate messages silently discarded. But if an ISP's mail server gets blacklisted for sending spam and users can't send mail, the helpdesk gets overwhelmed and/or customers start leaving.

My ISP recommends that customers sending (legitimate) bulk email should operate their own mail server. The rationale being "if you want to risk your IP address being blacklisted, fine; we aren't going to risk ours".