[OT] Microsoft Outlook Email Spam-Filter False-Positives Bug -- 2 of 2 Test Messages

[Gary W. Hvizdak]

All,

    In the past 24 hours Microsoft distributed more than a dozen security
updates, and even though none of them had "Outlook" in the title, it appears
that Microsoft has resolved their recently introduced "false positive"
spam-filter bug, which had been plaguing my callsign as well as many others.

    Keep in mind that this fix will only work for you, if the recipient of
your emails has installed these latest updates.

--- - - - ---

    Hey!  I just got an idea!  I'm going to submit this post twice, once
signing with my callsign spelled using a phonetic alphabet and a second time
with just my callsign.  If you only receive one copy of this message, then
your spam filter is misidentifying my callsign as spam!

    If your email client is Microsoft Outlook and you received this (2nd)
copy, then your spam filter is up to date.

73,
Gary  KI4GGX


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[Tim Herrick]

Don't know what to tell you. I did the updates and yet I got both of your emails in outlook. No problem.

73,
Tim Herrick, KQ8M
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-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Gary W. Hvizdak
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:49 PM
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Subject: [Elecraft] [OT] Microsoft Outlook Email Spam-Filter False-Positives Bug -- 2 of 2 Test Messages

All,

    In the past 24 hours Microsoft distributed more than a dozen security updates, and even though none of them had "Outlook" in the
title, it appears that Microsoft has resolved their recently introduced "false positive"
spam-filter bug, which had been plaguing my callsign as well as many others.

    Keep in mind that this fix will only work for you, if the recipient of your emails has installed these latest updates.

--- - - - ---

    Hey!  I just got an idea!  I'm going to submit this post twice, once signing with my callsign spelled using a phonetic alphabet
and a second time with just my callsign.  If you only receive one copy of this message, then your spam filter is misidentifying my
callsign as spam!

    If your email client is Microsoft Outlook and you received this (2nd) copy, then your spam filter is up to date.

73,
Gary  KI4GGX


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[Gary W. Hvizdak]

A moment ago I posted ...

    "If your email client is Microsoft Outlook and you received this (2nd)
copy, then your spam filter is up to date."

To which KQ8M replied ...

    "Don't know what to tell you. I did the updates and yet I got both of
your emails in outlook. No problem."

--

    You should have gotten both of them Tim.  (That was the whole point of
the test.)

73,
Gary


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[Tim Herrick]

Ok I was under the impression you were getting one email sent to the spam file due to content.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Gary W. Hvizdak
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Microsoft Outlook Email Spam-Filter False-Positives Bug -- 2 of 2 Test Messages

A moment ago I posted ...

    "If your email client is Microsoft Outlook and you received this (2nd) copy, then your spam filter is up to date."

To which KQ8M replied ...

    "Don't know what to tell you. I did the updates and yet I got both of your emails in outlook. No problem."

--

    You should have gotten both of them Tim.  (That was the whole point of the test.)

73,
Gary


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