Hi all
I have discovered that not all emails to the Canberrabirds chatline have been making it through successfully to my personal email account. David McDonald, manager of the chatline and currently abroad, has suggested
that I ask if anyone else is also experiencing this, so that on his return he can work out where the filtering is occurring – is it something limited to my email address or my ISP, or is it a more general problem?
The way to check is to see if any of the emails archived at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2015-11/index.html (the November 2015 archive)
have failed to come through to your email.
For example, from yesterday’s set of eight emails in this archive,
(my subscriber address) did not receive the following:
· Bush Curlews,
Terry Munro, 13:25
and from today’s emails in this archive, I did not receive
· off topic cane toads,
Julienne Kamprad,
10:31
although I received Mark Clayton’s reply soon after.
Can a few others on this chatline please compare the archive against their emails received, and let David know if any of the archived emails
are missing from their own email account?
The email exchange below gives a little more detail for those interested.
Regards
Steve
From: David McDonald
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2015 3:11 AM
To: Steve Read
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of chatline emails
Hello Steve, I got home from Perth and had to leave almost immediately for Scotland. Sorry but I did not have time to investigate the matter.
I will be home I'm a fortnights time.
Meanwhile , would you mind asking the list if others have the problem? No one has mentioned it to me, but perhaps no one else has checked as closely as you have done.
Regards - David
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From: Steve Read
Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2015 6:54 AM
To: 'David McDonald personal'
Subject: RE: Odd behaviour of chatline emails
Thanks for the reply, David
I don’t think there has been spam filtering in my Outlook – my Junk mail Outlook folder is empty, and the missing emails are not accessible when I access my emails instead through a web-browser link to my email
account at my ISP.
There may therefore have been spam filtering at a server before the emails reach my email account at my ISP. Examples of emails visible on the Canberrabirds bioacoustic site that did not reach my email account
at my ISP are:
November 11, 2015
· Wetland feather mapping,
Marg Peachey, 11:10
· unexpected mimic,
calyptorhynchus ., 17:48
November 10, 2015
· WHITE-WINGED TRILLER,
Robert Parnell, 18:49
· Hooded Robin,
Suzi Bond, 20:21
These seem innocuous!
Cheers
Steve
From: David McDonald personal
Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 11:26 PM
To: Steve Read
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of chatline emails
Thank you Steve, I have not been advised of this before.
Is it possible that your spam filters have intercepted some mail in Outlook or at your server? I have heard of occasions when birding emails containing 'tit' and/or 'breast' have been filtered to junk/spam.
Could you possibly send me an example to analyse?
Best wishes -David
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On 11 Nov 2015, at 5:01 PM, Steve Read <> wrote:
Hi David
I’ve been a member of the Canberrabirds chatline for number of years. Occasionally I check it from my work computer by going to the
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/
site, but mostly I download the emails each night through my normal email viewer (Ms Outlook) on my home computer.
Recently I have realised that some (an apparently random set) of the emails I see at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/
never make it to my home computer...!
Moreover, the same behaviour is happening for Birding-Aus emails. Not all emails I see at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/birding-aus/
are downloaded to MsOutlook on my home computer!
Have you ever heard of this happening before? Any ideas why it might be happening? Importantly, do you think it is a problem with these two chatlines themselves (hosted on the same server, I presume) or is it a problem with my ISP?
Regards
Steve
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