[Leica] Message Held

Brian Reid reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Fri Nov 8 16:43:53 PST 2019


It means that if you don't CC yourself on the message, it will go 
through immediately.
Or I suppose I could change the spam filter so that its limit is 7 
recipients instead of 6.

On 2019-11-08 16:32, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> I have no clue what that means but I appreciate your approving the
> message!  I'll try to review my PESO addresses but I thought I had
> eliminated all of those that are no longer effective.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:26 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
> 
>> Ah. I approved the message and it came through. You had CC'd yourself 
>> on
>> it, which was a 7th recipient.
>> 
>> On 2019-11-08 16:20, Brian Reid wrote:
>> > The LUG mailing software will not accept a message that has more than
>> > 6 recipients. This is part of its anti-spam and anti-virus processing.
>> > Statistically, a mail message with 6 recipients is more likely to be
>> > spam than not.
>> >
>> > Instead of accepting it, the software forwards it to me for review. If
>> > I decide the message is safe, I approve its transmission and out it
>> > goes.
>> >
>> > About once or twice a year a message arrives that says it is from you
>> > (Tina) and has numerous recipients, but its contents is some form of
>> > malicious data. Those I do not approve. If the world's senders of
>> > viruses and spam ever end their habit of addressing messages to 10 or
>> > 20 people at a time, it will be harder to catch them and stop them.
>> >
>> > LUG software has been doing this for at least 15 years, probably
>> > longer.
>> >
>> > On 2019-11-08 15:25, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
>> >> LUG:
>> >>
>> >> So what does this mean?
>> >>
>> >> Your mail to 'LUG' with the subject
>> >>
>> >>     IMG: Architectural Reflections
>> >>
>> >> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>> >>
>> >> The reason it is being held:
>> >>
>> >>     Too many recipients to the message
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> 
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