16 Jun
2021
16 Jun
'21
11:43 a.m.
Thanks for your response, Richard. You may have hit the nail on the head when you said
"*** CCN is in the process of moving". All my problems started after this move
began.
Again thanks for your thoughtful response.
Gary
> On Jun 16, 2021, at 06:04, Richard Bonner <ak621(a)chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, Gary Collins wrote:
>>
>> The short answer is I don't know.
>>
>> I have told my zoom club leaders to send notifications to my gmail account so
that I haven't received any Chebucto emails with distribution lists for a few weeks
with one exception.
>>
>> Last week I asked that a zoom notification with a distribution list be sent to
Chebucto AND my gmail. The gmail arrived on time, within minutes of being sent. The
Chebucto email arrived one hour later after the meeting had started.
>
> *** I suspect this is due to the incredible amount of spam mail that must be
filtered by Chebucto. At one time a decade or more ago, it was reported that over 90% of
the e-mails that go through CCN servers was spam.
>
> In addition, given the number of decades that CCN has been around means that
spammers are well familiar with CCN addresses.
>
>
>> I feel all these problems are because the filtering is screwed up.
>
> *** You may be right. However, I believe it is because spammers have found more
ways around the current spam-filtering logarithms.
>
>
>> This feeling is strengthened by the amount of spam I'm receiving on Chebucto.
Or maybe it's because my Chebucto account has just grown old like me!
>
> *** I also get more spam now than before, but not a lot more. It is still far less,
though, than I was receiving in the 1990s and 20-0s.
>
>
>> For now I'll use gmail for all my critical emails until I can again trust
Chebucto.
>
> *** CCN is in the process of moving so this is taking up the
> Technical crew's time. I have passed this on to them so it is on their to-do
list.
>
> I will keep you posted.
>
> Richard