This is an automatic response to your email. To: <graduate@CS.ColoState.EDU> From: <distutils-sig@python.org> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:56:59 --0600 Subject: Re: Re: My details Try this link (make the message short): mailto:graduate@CS.ColoState.EDU?subject=Add_me_to_your_list Your email was NOT delivered. This means that the recipient has not read your message. If you are trying to send legitimate mail and you're certain that the address is correct sorry for the inconvenience. You may try this: 1 - Send a SHORT email to the recipient with "Add me to your list" in the subject exactly as you see it there. If the message is short it is guaranteed to get through. The link that you see above should work in most situations. 2 - Wait for a reply. The recipient will tell you if you are ok to resend your message. If you are still confused maybe the following Q&A will help clarify things. Q: Why didn't my email get sent? A: Your email was scanned by automatic SPAM detecting software. It determined that it is probably SPAM. There are a number of reasons that this might happen and there is a possibility that legitimate email could get detected as unwanted mail. If this is the case, sorry for the inconvenience. Follow the directions above to request permission to send email to the recipient. Q: Does the recipient know that I've tried to send him/her a message? A: No, the email was intercepted before he/she knew anything about it. Q: Why don't you just accept every message that gets emailed to you like everyone else? This is inconvenient for me. A: If you are trying to send legitimate email I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Anyone who's had an email address for more than a year or two gets unwanted mail and knows that the longer one has an email address the more time is wasted by filtering though it. In some cases the unwanted mail is something that the user may wish that he never saw such as email with immoral content. The postmaster for ecbaldwin.net decided to take the chance that someone's legitimate mail might bounce for the benefit of not having to ever see unwanted mail. Q: Where can I learn about the software that caught my message? A: See http://spamassassin.org