You might not know it from my frequent, often rambling and sometimes
marginally on-topic posts, but I do have a conscious when it comes to
flooding the archives and everyone's inbox with emails. Three times out
of four, I write the listmember directly who asks a question that

1. has been covered a lot of times

2. is the kind of thing that I and more experienced mechanics have done
many times, but may be news to people who are having to get their hands
dirty simply because they own a vanagon. Most people on the list don't
need to hear it again.

But more and more I'm getting these autoblockers (in the last two
weeks, anyway). If the trend keeps up it will be a pretty small group
of us actually communicating.

Jim

On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:25 PM, jimt wrote:

> I have simply stopped direct replying to most people and only send to
> the
> list.  Aol uses and antiquated blocker and claims they are the
> greatest and
> then wonder why people either drop them or move to another email
> address.
> Been seeing the same recently with earthlink as well.  Many edu still
> use
> blackhole which is about the worst out there these days.  Your better
> off
> just creating new addresses every so often and killing off the old
> ones.  I
> even have one email address set up that trashes everything received in
> it.
> jimt
>
> On 8/24/05 7:15 PM, "Roger Van Till" <rvantill@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
>> Did the same thing.  Screw that.
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>
>>> I took the time to answer this post in good detail, but for my
>>> trouble
>>> I got back a spam response:
>>>
>>> I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.
>>>
>>> To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I
>>> have
>>> approved beforehand.
>