Subject Line Length Considered Spam
Hello all,
I have just received an email back from Excite on an issue that I am having about excite users not being able to sign up for my lists via the web. The installation is not having any errors script wise. I am experiencing a problem with the length of the subject line on posts going out and I am working on that issue with the list owners, but, I am also having the issue when a user subscribes, they get send a confirmation email with a subject line that that looks like this "confirm 101795f318ab73938580ffc26fdc7154937b62ac" Excite is blocking any subject that has more than 22 characters due to it looking like commercial spam. I would bet that other ISP's will be or have already started subject line filtering on the length as well.
My question is,
Is there a way to still have the confirmation email sent but not have that long subject line?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Joe
I know it is not terrifically useful to say "me too," but I have some 40 pending subscriptions from excite.com addresses, and not a single new subscription, over the last 3 days.
I am corresponding with Ted. H over at excite.com member services, in the hope that they can change their blocking criteria. If this is an annoyance for anyone else, I suggest going to the excite.com website and give a hand trying to explain the irony of viewing confirmation emails as spam attempts.
Cheers,
Jeanne
-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+techielists=regionalhelpwanted.com@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+techielists=regionalhelpwanted.com@python. org]On Behalf Of jsmith Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:16 PM To: Mailman-Users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Subject Line Length Considered Spam
Hello all,
I have just received an email back from Excite on an issue that I am having about excite users not being able to sign up for my lists via the web. The installation is not having any errors script wise. I am experiencing a problem with the length of the subject line on posts going out and I am working on that issue with the list owners, but, I am also having the issue when a user subscribes, they get send a confirmation email with a subject line that that looks like this "confirm 101795f318ab73938580ffc26fdc7154937b62ac" Excite is blocking any subject that has more than 22 characters due to it looking like commercial spam. I would bet that other ISP's will be or have already started subject line filtering on the length as well.
My question is,
Is there a way to still have the confirmation email sent but not have that long subject line?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Joe
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