Hi,
Several people have reported that they did not receive their ANS mailings recently. It turns out that Gmail decided to flag them as spam. Unfortunately, there is no way to turn off (that I have been able to find) the Gmail filter except by specific exemption. I created a Not Spam filter for [ans] in the subject and the missing ones reappeared. Many email systems subscribe to services which track spam, so if you are missing ANS but use another email provider you may be able to do something similar.
The issues are available on AMSAT.ORG under the Services link.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
Hi Alan and BB,
I also noticed this in GMAIL. It is important that people press the "not spam" button in GMAIL, so that the smart filters do not detect it as spam anymore. I believe Google aggregates these button presses and adjusts the filters. So if enough people detect it as not being spam, it will get off the list.
Spam filtering is always a delicate task...especially in radio amateur E-mails, where all the Q-codes and acronyms do not produce valid, grammatically correct sentences ;)
Wouter PA3WEG
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Alan wa4sca@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Several people have reported that they did not receive their ANS mailings recently. It turns out that Gmail decided to flag them as spam. Unfortunately, there is no way to turn off (that I have been able to find) the Gmail filter except by specific exemption. I created a Not Spam filter for [ans] in the subject and the missing ones reappeared. Many email systems subscribe to services which track spam, so if you are missing ANS but use another email provider you may be able to do something similar.
The issues are available on AMSAT.ORG under the Services link.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
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