Lynn- spam? not spam?

Not you. Or me. It's an automatic program; it's hit several people and I'm not entirely sure. It wasn't personal, jst know that.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

As I e-mailed to you, my post concerned some exciting news for my DH which I'd really like to share.

I didn't see a post from you when I went through the spam filter last night; everything is "caught", not discarded, unless I specifically set things/people to be discarded and I haven't done that to you.

Usually if I find something in the spam filter that's not supposed to be there it's because someone accidentally double-posted and the filter has decided to flag your material until further notice. (Yes, it does this on its own.)

So short version: Submit it. If it doesn't go through, I'll catch it.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

and my post has never appeared either. Can't remember it word for word, but it was on the dinner thread.

Okay, just after I posted above I tried to post on the Taking Charge thread and it happened again. This has never happened to me before and now twice in a couple of days, seems weird.

I can't see anything my post that is at all 'dodgy'! The title was 'stairs' and this is what I posted -

'A boyfriend of mine had a town house and when I visited him, it drove me mad going up and down stairs all the time! One set of stairs is enough for any house, methinks

The kids are out today (DS and girlfriend). I managed to duck out of the birthday celebration. It was very short notice, and I so need the say indoors. I'm sure the kids will be happier without me there anyhow, gives them a bit of independence.

So, my plans for the day. My bath is run (with the Ma Bubble Bar from Lush. Divine!) and I am planning a nice soak. Then it's an all out assault on that darn bedroom.'

No mention of anything unmentionable

it just happened to me again on Taking Charge, so I tried to post here about it and it happened again.

never happened to me before, now three times in a couple of days. Something weird seems to be going on.

With a bug to match?

My first flagged post (February 20) had no mention of any of those things. It mentioned the city where Katrina hit hardest, and also a city in Texas which is on the Gulf Coast.

The one from the other day was about DH getting his first roy*lties from a violin sonata he p*bl*shed, and how we ordered pizza to celebrate instead of eating corned beef.

Maybe an automatic update to the antispam program?

With a bug to match?

My 1st fl*gged post (February 20) had no mention of any of those things. It mentioned the city where k*trina hit hardest, and also a city in t*xas which is on the g*lf c**st.

The one from the other day was about DH getting his first r*y*lties from a vi*lin s*nata he p*bl*shed, and how we ord*r*d p*zz* to c*l*brate instead of eating c*rned b**f for the March 17 h*lid*y.

I think I know what the problem is. The common thread I've been able to find is...vacuuming! There is a trackback spammer that uses the term "vacuum cleaner" and I've been marking those as spam. So if you mention that, it's been throwing your comments in the spam box.

Now that doesn't mean you have to stop mentioning vacuums. The spam filter has Baynesian intelligence, which means it learns as it goes along. If I tell it enough times that when this person says "vacuum" it's spam but when that person says "vacuum" it's not, it will start figuring that into its decisions.

Short version: Hang tight and I'll check the spam filter more often while it learns.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

I didn't mention that either...

curiouser and curiouser!

It's something the trackback spammers have been using lately. "Vaca-tion" (no hyphen) has been a heavily used word, so that might have been one.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

Me too. I posted to Anhata's blog, and it was just a nice congrats & thought, and it was tagged as spam.

but then I did as Lynn told me and switched to Firefox some time back and it has solved all my problems so far!! Now you see the importance of doing as Lynn tells you!!

Kerri.

but seriously folks... it does seem to have plugged a lot of holes for me, especially anything relating to security which is where IE is nothing but holes it seems, which in turn causes firewalls to go berserk and all security systems to go into overdrive, or so it seems.

Kerri.