Is EarthLink's spamBlocker broken right now?

Ant

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Feb 5, 2020, 3:35:22 PM2/5/20

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Hello.

I got a lot of random spam e-mails (about ten in total) this morning PST
so far. Only one was caught by spamBlocker. Is anyone else noticing this
too?

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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Andy

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Feb 6, 2020, 2:30:52 AM2/6/20

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It was working for me but even with it spam still gets through at times

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Ant

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Feb 6, 2020, 2:36:34 PM2/6/20

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In alt.online-service.earthlink Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> It was working for me but even with it spam still gets through at times

For today, spamBlocker caught 15 spam e-mails since 7:17 AM PST. I guess it is working again. :)

Andy

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Feb 11, 2020, 3:49:15 AM2/11/20

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good to know it does happen from time to time

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David Schultz

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Mar 15, 2020, 4:22:25 PM3/15/20

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On 2/6/20 1:29 AM, Andy wrote:
> It was working for me but even with it spam still gets through at times
>

The spam blocker has been really annoying lately. It seems that every
message from groups.io gets routed to the SPAM folder. I used to find
maybe one misrouted message a week and now it is several every day.

I think this has something to do with the message headers being set to
show that the message was sent by the original author even though
groups.io is forwarding it.

I think that after I click on "This is not SPAM" and the address gets
added to the address book things improve. But that hasn't helped with
the messages from Giganews.

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Ant

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Mar 15, 2020, 7:00:32 PM3/15/20

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Yeah, it's annoying. I also noticed delayed incoming e-mails too. :(
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Andy

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Mar 17, 2020, 3:53:45 AM3/17/20

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Yes it does tend to do that but you can also set it not to catch anything
but then your in box gets a ton of junk mail.

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Andy

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Mar 17, 2020, 3:54:18 AM3/17/20

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that happens from time to time espicaly during peak load times on the mail
servers

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Ant

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Mar 17, 2020, 4:07:31 PM3/17/20

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In alt.online-service.earthlink Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:

> that happens from time to time espicaly during peak load times on the mail
> servers

It seems to be back to normal for now for late incoming e-mails and
legit e-mails ending up in my spam folder.

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Ant

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Mar 17, 2020, 4:09:46 PM3/17/20

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In alt.online-service.earthlink Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:

> Yes it does tend to do that but you can also set it not to catch anything
> but then your in box gets a ton of junk mail.

Yeah, that's a problem. Haha. I also don't use ELN's Webmail's
addresbook. It looks like it's working now. Most spams are caught. Legit
e-mails do go to inbox now so far. We just have to check our spam folder
more often. I used to it once a day, but now multiple times per day. :(

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