First off don't reply to this message on the list Please private 
replies only.

I almost didn't send this message it's verging very close to being a 
topic that would be band, but I became curious and then thought that 
a recent experience with my ISP might help some writers.

I'm curious has your ISP done you the way mine did me last spring?

If so please send me a private email message and tell me about it.

Send private replies to hmelton314159265@yahoo.com or the heavily 
filtered one this message came from.

Almost forgot 

Look after the Quote of some of Gary's message to see what my ISP did 
last spring.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:22:12 -0600 Gary Kleppe <gary@garykleppe.org>
wrote:

installments. What's not understandable -- to me, anyway -- is why
they can't seem to drop a quick note to that effect. Other than
serious medical problems (which did happen with one of my
prereaders), I don't really see any good excuse for not replying at
all.

QUOTE
In the past few years many small and medium sized ISP companies have 
hired external companies to virus and spam filter incoming email for 
their customers.

Often the ISP will not tell their customers what's happening to 
"their" email and they will set the filters to a very narrow default.
END QUOTE

Dry words and until it happens to your email account don't seem that 
important or meaningful.

Last spring the ISP for what had been my main email address did just 
that and I spent four days trying to figure out why all my NASA 
newsletters and half my Engineering newsletters along with many FFML 
post were suddenly missing.

Among other things the default filter setting were so narrow that the 
advertisement at the end of Yahoo email messages was kicking all 
Yahoo email into an off site spam folder.

A folder that I and none of the other customers even knew existed.

My ISP had not and was not going to mention anything about this new 
pre-filtering service being applied to all email messages.

Only the pre-filtering company's unexpected mass delivery of warning 
messages about this folders accumulation of messages let me and the  
other customers know what was happening to email messages.

When I called my ISP they told me it was something they had decided 
the customer didn't need to know about.

I'm not sure why, but when I compared my ISP to a post office and 
implied they had the same responsibilities they became very angry and 
very quickly let me know "They weren't in the business of delivering 
email". 

They also let me know fairly kindly and in a round about fashion that 
the email they were handling was theirs and they could do as they saw 
fit with it.

howard melton

God bless
  
 



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