st: Messages not appearing

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Dear Listers,

Some odd behaviour in what appears and what does not appear on the list 
lately may be traceable to our spam detector we have operating locally.  
It daily captures about 100,000 letters.  For me personally it stops 
about a 100 letters that have mostly to do with offers to enlarge part 
of my anatomy, so I am grateful the program is in place!  Of course, the 
program makes decisions based on some judgment calls, and as a result it 
sometimes does things we do not expect.  So if your posting to Statalist 
does not appear within a short time (usually, a matter of minutes, not 
hours) ask yourself the usual questions: (1) Am I still subscribed? 
(sometimes you get unsubscribed because letters to you get bounced back 
to us, or because you go on vacation and we get those pesky "Ta ta, I am 
on vacation!" messages.), (2) Is the message too long? (Not usually the 
case.), (3) Am I sending a formatted message? (Usually the case.  
Remember, Statalist requires "Plain Text", and does not like (a common 
courtesy, please get rid of) those signature cards that get attached to 
messages by some.), and (4) Am I mailing from another account?

And now you can add another reason: possibly the spam detector swallowed 
up my message.  Currently, the only way around that is to wait a decent 
amount of time.  Check the archives to see if your message appears 
there.  If not, resubmit the message, but slightly transformed. Possibly 
change an URL--e.g. put a > in front of it so that it looks like text 
and not an URL. Use your imagination. Don't talk about enlargements? 
Anyway, it should go without saying that you should check,

http://stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html

m.p.




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