March 5th, 2008
Check your Email Six
“Check your six” started out as a cry from pilot-to-pilot to have them take a look behind and see if they had any enemy fighters on their tail.
I think most of us who work for deaf agencies use email. I would say 99% of us who do, also use a signature at the tail-end of the email to list contact information.
For some reason, I always had problems trying to send emails to several of my colleagues and kept getting rejected by their spam filters. We both tried to figure it out but to no avail.
My good friend Rob over at seerobcode.com, a programmer in his own right, figured out the problem and posted the solution over there. If you’ve had problems with emails being deflected by spam filters, Rob says to change (or remove) the dynamic IP address.
As a former info security guy, I can give you a pretty good guess as to why spam filters are doing that: they don’t want people being redirected to phishing websites.
-Neil
March 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Thanks for the heads up!
March 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Unfortunately that is how it works. Like what your friend Ron suggests, it works that way but often times, someone wouldn’t understand. ie.
pxxxxxx[dot]com
The person actually entered everything she saw on my signature. I had to call her and explained her how to read the signature. Guess her blond hair explains something?
April 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I believe this system is used by AOL to sift suspect emails into the spam filter.
If you are unfortunate enough (like me) to have AOL as your ISP regularly check your spam box.