You will notice that my posts sometimes often include "ham" among the recipients. This will result in a bounce if you "reply all" to my posts, and several people have commented on this. By way of explanation: I am currently using MicroSuck Outlook Express, the free but rather hobbled version of Outlook that came on my PC. About a year ago, my spam ratio finally exceeded my patience ratio. Since Outlook Express does not provide an effective spam filter, I decided to try Spambayes, of which I had heard good things (which were true). Most mail programs provide API hooks allowing Spambayes filtering to be integrated into the program. Not so Outlook Express. When using Spambayes with Outlook Express, Spambayes must be inserted upstream of Outlook Express, where it marks incoming mail so that Outlook Express can classify it using its (lame) native mail filters. From a small number of unsavory choices, Spambayes chose to include "ham", "spam" or "unsure" in the "To:" line, so that Outlook Express could identify and route spam by detecting "spam" in the "To:" line. I am guessing that this Spambayes feature was included solely to deal with Outlook Express. Unfortunately, because good incoming mail has "ham" in the "To:" line, "ham" is replicated to the "To:" line of reply-alls to that mail. If I fail to remove "ham" from the recipients, it makes its way into the mailing list and subsequent "reply-alls". Since "ham" is not a valid recipient, bounces occur. I don't know if Seqfan and Math-Fun could filter "ham" out of the "To:" line of incoming mail, this would solve the mailing list problem. A more general solution would be for Spambayes to allow me to put "spam" in the "To:" line of spam, but leave the "To:" line of ham alone; this is consistent with my own personal mail filtering. - David W. Wilson "Truth is just truth -- You can't have opinions about the truth." - Peter Schickele, from P.D.Q. Bach's oratorio "The Seasonings"
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David Wilson