22 September 2010

lost in the bowels of Google Groups

A post I made earlier today to a mailing list seems to have been held up for an hour, even though I am a subscriber to the mailing list in question, have proper and meticulously preened DNS A, PTR, MX, and even TXT records, publishing SPF details properly, because of prior problems with Google's mailservice's erroneous markings of some pieces as 'spammy' in the past ...

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Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of
herrold@owlriver.com designates 198.49.244.50 as permitted sender)
client-ip=198.49.244.50;
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:56:48 -0400 (EDT)

... anti-spam measures, one assumes. I understand taking such measures, but sure wish the scoring 'downticks' Google was marking were published and findable (compare, to the good: AOL's current practices)

But then, I am told from time to time that my world view and some of my approaches are 'too utopian'. Humph -- a little bit 'utopian is all right, but one can overdo it? Who knew?'