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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear long suffering English teachers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The dreaded out of
offce spam has been killed off.<BR>I have also built in some extra filtering so
that if the exact characters "out of office" appear in an email subject
ANYWHERE, the email will be killed off without hitting the list. There are ways
around it , such as an extra space between the words, but we we will assume
people who are genuinely out of the office will be able to construct the phrase
with the correct spelling and spacing and will have it in the subject of the
email. We will deal with variations if and when we have
to.<BR> There may be some testing in the next few days
just to ensure the filtering is working as expected, however do not be alarmed
as the out of office subject line will state it is for testing
only.<BR> The damage seems to have been done
between midnight and 9 am this morning ( Thursday ). <BR>
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I know
this filtering works because I wrote this email with the subject:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> "The Out of Office SPAM -- from
the Administrator " and it never got through , hence the re-phrasing of the
subject line on the second attempt ::)))</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>We move forward.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevork Krozian<BR>Mailing List Creator and
Administrator<BR><A
href="mailto:kevork@edulists.com.au">kevork@edulists.com.au</A><BR><A
href="http://www.edulists.com.au">www.edulists.com.au</A><BR>Tel: 0419 356
034</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Kevork Krozian<BR>Mailing List Creator and
Administrator<BR><A
href="mailto:kevork@edulists.com.au">kevork@edulists.com.au</A><BR><A
href="http://www.edulists.com.au">www.edulists.com.au</A><BR>Tel: 0419 356
034</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>